EA Has Cancelled Black Panther And Shut The Developer Down – WGB

EA’s latest soccer recreation doesn’t fairly carry out as much as requirements and all of the sudden the writer goes into meltdown. After recently culling Codemasters and ditching the WRC license, EA has now shuttered Cliffhangar Video games, thereby additionally cancelling its Black Panther recreation.

IGN broke the usual after by some means managing to amass an inside e-mail despatched by EA Leisure president Laura Miele. Based on Miele, this and the current layoffs are to “”sharpen our focus and put our artistic vitality behind probably the most important development alternatives.”

A part of this new “artistic vitality” is to close down Cliffhanger Video games. The studio was based in 2023 and primarily based in Seattle, and was engaged on a Black Panther recreation in collaboration with Marvel. Little or no of the sport has been proven since its announcement again in 2023, although.

“These selections are laborious,” Miele wrote within the inside E-mail. “They have an effect on folks we’ve labored with, discovered from, and shared actual moments with. We’re doing every thing we will to help them — together with discovering alternatives inside EA, the place we’ve had success serving to folks land in new roles.”

IGN reached out to EA for remark and affirmation of what number of jobs will probably be misplaced, however EA apparently declined to remark. In addition they referred IGN again to the Emil Miele despatched, confirming the information.

The bizarre factor is that EA’s worker depend has truly been rising regardless of the numerous layoffs reported. GameFile reported on the situation, revealing that as of March this 12 months EA workers 800 folks greater than it did in March of 2024.

Miele goes on to say that EA is planning on specializing in only a few of its franchises, which IGN lists as being Battlefield, The Sims, Skate and Apex Legends. EA’s different Marvel-related recreation, Iron Man, stays untouched. The unique take care of Marvel additionally requires a 3rd, unannounced title. Respawn may even hold happening the following Star Wars: Jedi recreation (although its reported that a Titanfall game they were working on was canned recently) whereas Bioware continues to develop the following Mass Impact.

IGN states that the EA Sports activities division is untouched.