Cliffhanger Video games’ Black Panther, certainly one of two Marvel video games in growth underneath Digital Arts, has reportedly been cancelled, and the studio closed. Laura Miele, EA Leisure president, wrote an e mail to workers (obtained by IGN) asserting this, together with different layoffs.
She additionally addressed that different challenge cancellations and layoffs had been to “sharpen our focus and put our artistic power behind probably the most vital progress alternatives.”
“These choices are onerous. They have an effect on folks we’ve labored with, realized from, and shared actual moments with. We’re doing all the things 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.”
The following set of layoffs will affect each cell and central growth groups, although it’s unknown what number of had been affected. IGN realized that the quantity is lower than the 300 latest layoffs from Respawn Leisure and different EA studios. Round this time, EA had additionally reportedly cancelled an unannounced Titanfall extraction shooter.
As for Black Panther, it was revealed by means of job listings to be an open-world title with a brand new system referred to as “Open Story,” which might incorporate dialogue and conversations into varied “interconnected programs” for its narrative. There was no gameplay or announcement trailer launched.
Kevin Stephens, former studio head of Monolith Productions, led Cliffhanger Video games. The Center-earth: Shadow of Mordor and Shadow of Conflict studio additionally shut down earlier this yr with its subsequent sport, Surprise Lady, cancelled.
