Following game's cancellation, The Last of Us multiplayer director vows he's "never going to let what I work on not see the light of day again"
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Ubisoft quietly cancels Animal Crossing and Minecraft-inspired cozy life sim game Alterra, layoffs reportedly not happening
… "The news was broken to staff working on the game on Tuesday, and they were all sent home for the day." The site's report was pretty much immediate, but its sources claim no layoffs were happening following the project's cancellation, at least not yet: "Employees working on the game were put on ava… …
"We overlooked the potential offense and harm" - the studio behind popular multiplayer game Party Animals has now cancelled its AI video competition entirely
… Looking at the wider games industry and the ongoing discussion about AI and its role in game development, we know of publishers and studios embracing it ; some have even attempted and failed to create entire games, like Amazon . …
Sega's live-service "Super Game" has been cancelled, but revivals of classics like Crazy Taxi and Golden Axe are still moving forward
… The Super Game's cancellation is quietly confirmed as part of the announcement, too. "The ultimate goal in the 'Super Game' strategy is to create a game so revolutionary that it attracts far more active users than any of the Group's games to date," Sega CEO Haruki Satomi said back in 2022 . …
Amazon has cancelled The Lord of the Rings MMO, but promises it "continues to explore a compelling new game experience" set in Middle-earth
… If you want to read more about the goings on at Amazon Game Studios during the cancellation of the Lord of the Rings MMO, you can read Eurogamer's report on Amazon's company-wide push to use A, and the story of its curious, LLM-powered game, Project Trident . Love Eurogamer.net? …
Eidos-Montréal's unannounced, secret game was almost complete before cancellation, as the Deus Ex studio now reportedly pivots to a new Alien project
… The main reason seemingly was the cancellation of a big open-world game tentatively titled Wildlands, which "had been in development since early 2019" and taken resources away from other projects, such as the cancelled Deus Ex game that was reportedly binned in January 2024. …
Cancelled PS5 project from Call of Duty vet and Dark Outlaw Games wasn't going to be a live-service release
… While the duo recognised that the studio's fate and its game's cancellation "hurts a little bit", they have no hard feelings towards PlayStation. Rather, they put the cancellation down to a tough business environment and "industry stuff", saying it wasn't a case of the game's poor quality. …
Sony Interactive Entertainment president and CEO hasn't given up on live-service games just yet: "The genre itself is relatively new, so we want to continue to take on challenges"
Despite a raft of high-profile flops and cancellations, Sony Interactive Entertainment president Hideaki Nishino has reaffirmed the company's commitment to live-service games. …
A former Naughty Dog lead admits he found out The Last of Us multiplayer game was dead just 24 hours before the public announcement
… To find out it was getting cancelled 24 hours before the cancellation was announced to the public, that's how I found out the game was being cancelled. …
The single-player Dungeons & Dragons action game, being made by the director of the Star Wars Jedi series, has been cancelled
… These games are part of a billion-dollar push by Hasbro, which owns Wizards of the Coast, to establish a successful video game business of its own, beyond the successful Magic: The Gathering digital game Arena, and external D&D collaborations like Baldur's Gate 3 . …