#studio-closure

#studio-closure

A loose idea was for players to control different versions or aspects of Atreus as they battled through Greek hell, and to have some sort of cooperative gameplay and ongoing support. Some Bluepoint staffers grumbled that they should be working on another traditional action game like Demon's Souls or God of War Ragnarok rather than a live-service project that few of them seemed to want to make.

Why does Hasbro keep shutting down studios instead of releasing games? Project Windless was the surprise hit out of last week's PlayStation showcase and its developers have been using genAI for the early development phase. And would it kill publishers to stop delisting old versions of their games? It's the latest edition of Morning Checkpoint, Kotaku 's daily roundup of gaming news, rumors, and culture.

On December 22, Ubisoft Halifax announced that 61 of its workers had joined the Game & Media Workers Guild of Canada. At the time, the studio's lead programmer, Jon Huffman, told CTV News that 73.8 percent of employees voted in favor of unionizing. Ominously in hindsight, he had described the decision as a "huge relief." The studio was working on mobile titles within the Rainbow Six and Assassin's Creed franchises.

Romero Games confirms that funding was pulled and the game cancelled, and that "due to confidentiality agreements, we cannot disclose the publisher's identity, though some may infer it from public information."