EA Kills Its ‘Black Panther’ Recreation Alongside With Developer Cliffhanger Video games

Two years in the past, EA introduced a sport primarily based on Marvel hero Black Panther from new developer Cliffhanger Video games. Now, that venture has been canceled.

Per IGN, EA Leisure president Laura Miele despatched out an e mail confirming the sport was scrapped and Cliffhanger is closing. At time of writing, it’s unclear what number of staff are affected, because the writer is making an attempt to maneuver employees onto different tasks the place attainable. The cuts, per Miele, have been accomplished to “sharpen our focus and put our inventive vitality behind essentially the most important development alternatives.”

“These selections are onerous. They have an effect on individuals we’ve labored with, realized from, and shared actual moments with,” she continued. “We’re doing the whole lot we will to assist them—together with discovering alternatives inside EA, the place we’ve had success serving to individuals land in new roles.”

In late February 2024, EA CEO Andrew Wilson stated the writer would “transfer away from growth of future licensed IP that we don’t consider might be profitable in our altering trade.” This directive doesn’t seem to have an effect on its two identified Star Wars video games, Bit Reactor’s Zero Company due in 2026, and the third Jedi title in growth at Respawn Leisure.

Particulars on the Black Panther sport have been nonexistent because the venture’s reveal, although a job listing from 2024 indicated it could be a single-player, open-world sport. This was additionally the second of a three-part sport collaboration between EA and Marvel: one primarily based on Iron Man from developed by Lifeless House studio Motive, and a 3rd, at present unannounced sport. At time of writing, each of these are thought to nonetheless be in growth.

Marvel has at present not supplied a touch upon the sport’s cancellation.

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