EA’s determined to return to the reducing properly. Its execs have determined to cancel a Black Panther recreation that was within the works at Cliffhanger Video games, and shut the studio for good measure. An unspecified variety of folks will lose their jons or need to transition to different roles inside EA consequently.
That is in line with a report from IGN, which cites an e-mail from EA Leisure president Laura Miele about these newest cuts as having stated that they are a part of the writer’s ongoing efforts to “sharpen our focus” and go exhausting on “probably the most vital development alternatives”. Yep, it is 2025, and a liscenced Marvel tie-in revolving round a well-liked film franchise apparently is not alternative to earn money.
EA hasn’t confirmed the variety of workers affected by Cliffhanger’s closure and a few layoffs to its cell and central groups it is enacting on the identical time, with IGN understanding that much less folks will probably be hit than the roughly 300 impacted by the layoffs the writer enacted just last month.
That final spherical, in case you’ve got misplaced observe of EA’s wanton self-destruction by this level, concerned workers at respawn and got here with the information that an in-development Titanfall recreation had been consigned to the scrapheap.
“These choices are exhausting,” Miele wrote within the e-mail, “They have an effect on folks we’ve labored with, realized from, and shared actual moments with. We’re doing all the pieces we will to assist them — together with discovering alternatives inside EA, the place we’ve had success serving to folks land in new roles.”
We might not seen something of this Black Panther recreation from Cliffhanger following its announcement back in 2023. That announcement revealed that it might be a third-person, single-player factor that includes “an expansive and reactive world that empowers gamers to expertise what it’s prefer to tackle the mantle of Wakanda’s protector, the Black Panther”. In 2024, a job listing hinted that world might be an open one.
So, it is unattainable to say if it’d have been , dangerous, or simply first rate recreation had it gone the gap. However, like, what are we doing right here if even video games like this do not get the prospect to make it to an finish outcome? Miele stated that EA plans to proceed to place money into Motive’s Iron Man recreation and the following Star Wars: Jedi recreation from Respawn.
Except for that although, the writer’s continued move away from liscenced titles appears to be seeing it just about circle the wagons round Battlefield, The Sims, Skate, Apex Legends, and the Mass Impact recreation what’s left of BioWare is now engaged on.
In any case, why trouble giving your self plenty of probabilities to earn money, when you may put your entire eggs into an more and more dwindling basket and desperately pray that nothing ever goes unsuitable with any of them?