2K lays off staff working on free-to-play shooter Project Ethos, while hinting at "new direction and focus"
2K has laid off staff at 31st Union, the studio working on free-to-play shooter Project Ethos. …
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2K has laid off staff at 31st Union, the studio working on free-to-play shooter Project Ethos. …
Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick says that the firm is still planning for long-gestating and recently rebooted online shooter Project Ethos to be a "massive hit" despite the escalating challenges of the market, which has seen even genre pioneer Bungie run into difficulties . …
… Chief Accounting Officer Hannah Sage confirmed to GamesIndustry.biz that the title was one of the three "core new IP" that the firm had referred to in its FY 2026 report , leaving the previously-announced and recently rebooted Project ETHOS and Ken Levine's Judas as the company's only confirmed new… …
… Then in 2019, Riot announced three new games and teased a number of upcoming projects, mostly codenamed: Project A became Valorant, and Project L became 2XKO. Still to release is Project F, a multiplayer game, and a subsequently announced MMO, also set in the world of Runeterra. …
… "When we had Private Division, we did a bunch of that," he says, "and what we found was that given Take Two's approach, which is trying to make the biggest hits on earth, we weren't necessarily well suited to work on small independent projects ." "Generally when we work on something, it's because w… …
… "We need to have a toolkit that we invest time in, so that when the project starts to scale and these features spread across an open-world map, the project doesn't collapse under its own weight. …
… How do you think we should do this?" You're going to get the best out of a team if they have the freedom and flexibility to really make the project theirs. …