EA’s determined to return to the slicing nicely. Its execs have determined to cancel a Black Panther sport that was within the works at Cliffhanger Video games, and shut the studio for good measure. An unspecified variety of folks will lose their jons or should transition to different roles inside EA consequently.
That is in keeping with a report from IGN, which cites an electronic mail from EA Leisure president Laura Miele about these newest cuts as having stated that they are a part of the writer’s ongoing efforts to “sharpen our focus” and go arduous on “probably the most vital progress alternatives”. Yep, it is 2025, and a liscenced Marvel tie-in revolving round a preferred film franchise apparently is not a very good alternative to generate income.
EA hasn’t confirmed the variety of workers affected by Cliffhanger’s closure and a few layoffs to its cellular and central groups it is enacting on the identical time, with IGN understanding that much less folks shall be hit than the roughly 300 impacted by the layoffs the writer enacted just last month.
That final spherical, in case you’ve got misplaced observe of EA’s wanton self-destruction by this level, concerned workers at respawn and got here with the information that an in-development Titanfall sport had been consigned to the scrapheap.
“These choices are arduous,” Miele wrote within the electronic mail, “They have an effect on folks we’ve labored with, discovered from, and shared actual moments with. We’re doing every thing we are able to to help them — together with discovering alternatives inside EA, the place we’ve had success serving to folks land in new roles.”
We might not seen something of this Black Panther sport from Cliffhanger following its announcement back in 2023. That announcement revealed that it might be a third-person, single-player factor that includes “an expansive and reactive world that empowers gamers to expertise what it’s wish to tackle the mantle of Wakanda’s protector, the Black Panther”. In 2024, a job listing hinted that world might be an open one.
So, it is not possible to say if it’d have been a very good, dangerous, or simply respectable sport had it gone the space. However, like, what are we doing right here if even video games like this do not get the possibility to make it to an finish end result? Miele stated that EA plans to proceed to place money into Motive’s Iron Man sport and the following Star Wars: Jedi sport from Respawn.
Other than that although, the writer’s continued move away from liscenced titles seems to be seeing it just about circle the wagons round Battlefield, The Sims, Skate, Apex Legends, and the Mass Impact sport what’s left of BioWare is now engaged on.
In any case, why trouble giving your self numerous probabilities to generate income, when you’ll be able to put all your eggs into an more and more dwindling basket and desperately pray that nothing ever goes improper with any of them?
