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Quantic Dream is shutting down its live-service multiplayer game Spellcasters Chronicles and reorganizing the studio, with reports of broader fallout including possible layoffs. Separate coverage notes that Quantic Dream’s Star Wars Eclipse is unaffected, despite the Spellcasters cancellation.

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Key Takeaway Spellcasters Chronicles has been canceled and Quantic Dream is reorganizing, while Star Wars Eclipse remains unaffected.
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Spellcasters Chronicles has been canceled and Quantic Dream is reorganizing, while Star Wars Eclipse remains unaffected.

Quantic Dream is shutting down its live-service multiplayer game Spellcasters Chronicles and reorganizing the studio, with reports of broader fallout including possible layoffs. Separate coverage notes that Quantic Dream’s Star Wars Eclipse is unaffected, despite the Spellcasters cancellation.

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Top 5 signals · Spellcasters Chronicles has been canceled and Quantic Dream
r/GamingLeaksAndRumours · 6h ago
STJV: Quantic Dream's 'Star Wars Eclipse' still in Complicated Development as Cancelled 'Spellcasters' Spent 8 Years in Dev + Mismanagement disaster and 95 jobs at risk
Kotaku · 3h ago
Union Blasts Quantic Dream Leadership Over Live-Service Failure And The Potential For Up To 95 Layoffs: ‘Incompetence Led Us Here’
KitGuru · 24h ago
Quantic Dream cancels live service game ‘Spellcasters Chronicles’
Kotaku · 24h ago
Quantic Dream Is Abandoning Its MOBA Just Three Months After Launch As Another Ill-Fated Live-Service Game Gets Added To The Pyre
GamesIndustry.biz · 8h ago
Quantic Dream cancels first multiplayer title Spellcasters Chronicles

Briefing Findings · Spellcasters Chronicles has been canceled and Quantic Dream

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Star Wars Eclipse status Reported as unaffected

What to Watch

  • Follow Quantic Dream coverage on Spellcasters Chronicles closure details and any remaining player-access announcements. Eurogamer
  • Watch updates on Star Wars Eclipse to confirm continuity despite the Spellcasters shutdown. Eurogamer

What Changed

  • Union Blasts Quantic Dream Leadership Over Live-Service Failure And The Potential For Up To 95 Layoffs: ‘Incompetence Led Us Here’ Kotaku
  • STJV: Quantic Dream's 'Star Wars Eclipse' still in Complicated Development as Cancelled 'Spellcasters' Spent 8 Years in Dev + Mismanagement disaster and 95 jobs at risk Eurogamer
  • Quantic Dream cancels first multiplayer title Spellcasters Chronicles GamesIndustry.biz
  • Quantic Dream's multiplayer game Spellcasters Chronicles is being shut down and the studio reorganised, but Star Wars Eclipse is unaffected Eurogamer
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Kotaku · 2 articles
GamesIndustry.biz · 1 article
KitGuru · 1 article
r/GamingLeaksAndRumours · 1 article

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Quantic Dream cancels live service game ‘Spellcasters Chronicles’ - KitGuru

After a spree of playtests and an early access launch, Quantic Dream has cancelled development of it

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Kotaku 2 articles

Tracking: Union Blasts Quantic Dream Leadership Over Live-Service Failure And The Potential For Up To 95 Layoffs: ‘Incompetence Led Us Here’ / Quantic Dream Is Abandoning Its MOBA Just Three Months After Launch As Another Ill-Fated Live-Service Game Gets Added To The Pyre

Union Blasts Quantic Dream Leadership Over Live-Service Failure And The Potential For Up To 95 Layoffs: ‘Incompetence Led Us Here’ Quantic Dream Is Abandoning Its MOBA Just Three Months After Launch As Another Ill-Fated Live-Service Game Gets Added To The Pyre
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