- EA has canceled Cliffhanger Video games’ Black Panther sport and shuttered the studio
- EA Leisure president Laura Miele advised employees that the choice was made to “sharpen our focus and put our artistic vitality behind probably the most vital development alternatives”
- Going ahead, EA will give attention to franchises like Battlefield, The Sims, Skate, and Apex Legends, whereas additionally supporting video games like Motive’s Iron Man, the third Star Wars: Jedi sport, and Mass Impact 5
Digital Arts has canceled Cliffhanger Video games’ Black Panther sport and closed down the studio.
In an electronic mail despatched to employees (as seen and reported by IGN), EA Leisure president Laura Miele shared the announcement and stated the choice to cancel the sport and shut the studio was to “sharpen our focus and put our artistic vitality behind probably the most vital development alternatives.”
The variety of workers affected by the choice hasn’t been confirmed at the moment, however IGN understands that the entire variety of layoffs is lower than the 300 roles that have been lower final month throughout Respawn and several other different studios.
It is also understood that EA has laid off some people from its cellular and central groups.
“These choices are arduous,” Miele wrote within the electronic mail. “They have an effect on individuals we’ve labored with, discovered from, and shared actual moments with. We’re doing all the pieces we will to help them – together with discovering alternatives inside EA, the place we’ve had success serving to individuals land in new roles.”
Miele’s electronic mail additionally talked about that EA will now give attention to a small handful of franchises going ahead, like Battlefield, The Sims, Skate, and Apex Legends.
The president additionally stated that EA will proceed to spend money on Motive’s Iron Man sport and Respawn’s third Star Wars: Jedi sport, the Mass Impact 5, whereas additionally sustaining its cellular enterprise
Cliffhanger’s Black Panther mission was introduced in 2023 and was being labored on by builders who beforehand led the Shadow of Mordor collection.
Platforms weren’t confirmed on the time, and there was no trailer to accompany the sport’s reveal, however we did know that it was an “unique, third-person, single-player Black Panther sport”.
On the time, mission lead Kevin Stephens stated the sport was going to be a “definitive and genuine Black Panther expertise”.
“Wakanda is a wealthy superhero sandbox, and our mission is to develop an epic world for gamers who love Black Panther and need to discover the world of Wakanda as a lot as we do,” Stephens stated.
