Sign in to your Polygon.com account 007: First Light and Hitman developer IO Interactive has confirmed that it will be laying off staff, as well as closing its Istanbul studio, in the wake of Xbox withdrawing funding for IOI's in-development online role-playing game , Project Fantasy . …
… IO will continue developing Project Fantasy, but said it will have to make "staffing decisions" in response to the funding change, which doesn't sound great. …
… That makes me suspect Under the Umbrella wants to be in the faith-based movie business, which is going to make it harder to find producers for a Book of the Dun Cow movie, in an environment where funding an independent fantasy movie based on a generally forgotten novel would already be prohibitivel… …
… A mass of Chinese studios is primed to follow in Game Science’s wake, although few of them seem to have ideas beyond “pretty, Wuxia-flavored Soulslike set in the world of Chinese mythology.” In highlight compilation videos , their Unreal Engine 5 visuals blur into one another: Twelve Shadows , The … …