Digital Arts (sometimes called EA) introduced it’s canceling its Black Panther sport and shutting studio Cliffhanger Video games. Moreover, the corporate is chopping personnel from its cell and central groups.
What did EA say about ultimate Cliffhanger Studios?
In line with IGN, an electronic mail from EA Leisure president Laura Miele used to be despatched to personnel in regards to the cancellation and studio closure. Miele writes that this variation, in addition to different fresh layoffs that noticed more or less 300 roles made redundant, are to “sharpen our center of attention and put our inventive power in the back of essentially the most vital expansion alternatives.” The e-mail additionally confirms that EA is making an attempt to position the ones impacted by means of the layoffs in different roles.
“Those choices are laborious,” Miele wrote. “They have an effect on folks we’ve labored with, realized from, and shared actual moments with. We’re doing the entirety we will to toughen them — together with discovering alternatives inside EA, the place we’ve had luck serving to folks land in new roles.”
Miele’s electronic mail additionally states it’ll proceed that specialize in the Battlefield, The Sims, Skate, and Apex Legends franchises. Paintings will proceed on Reason’s Iron Guy sport, the following access within the Big name Wars: Jedi collection, and BioWare’s subsequent Mass Impact sport.
The e-mail does no longer point out EA Sports activities. IGN mentions that since EA Sports activities is a separate department, and Miele runs EA Leisure, the absence is smart. IGN additionally states that EA Sports activities isn’t impacted by means of those adjustments.
EA and Wonder had partnered to make 3 video games in response to the comedian ebook corporate’s characters. This incorporated the aforementioned Iron Guy sport from Reason and this now canceled Black Panther venture from Cliffhanger Video games. At the start introduced in 2023, EA’s Black Panther sport used to be an open-world action-adventure sport from former builders of Center-Earth: Shadow of Mordor.
As a part of the hot layoffs from April that impacted round 300 workers throughout EA, an unannounced Titanfall sport used to be canceled by means of Respawn Leisure.
(Supply: IGN)
