Telltale Games was so sure of its take on “The Walking Dead” and the conclusion of protagonist Clementine’s tale that they took the unusual step of announcing all of the release dates for the episodic game’s final arc this year.
A job listing published by the UK studio reveals that its next project will be another entirely new IP.
Outriders developer People Can Fly's next game has been canceled after its publishing agreement with Take-Two Interactive fell through.
"the capital group of PCF Group S.A."
If you're getting funding from a group that needs two different ways of Acronyming itself, things will not go the way you want them to.
Outriders was crap. They slapped that game together and threw in a loot system to get players' attention. This game was absolutely jank and the always online nonsense made it stutter like crazy. People Can't Optimize.
I liked Outriders but I could see where the artistic vision was compromised. The way the industry is now, it wouldn't surprise me that upper management would scrap something that didn't pull in money via gaas, mts, or other means.
The new Escape from Tarkov Unheard Edition has the community in an outrage after promising exclusive access to the new PvE mode for $250 USD.
$250? Do they not know all the other games that already exist or will be made in the future that can do similar?
This is for the hardcore people that have 2500 h in the game. They basically play that one game the whole year.
Oh and those same people are mad as hell at this... what a way to reward fans of your game and annihilate newcomers.
Read a comment earlier calling it a "special monetization operation." I had to chuckle at that.
It wasnt sudden, they had way too many similar games.
Continually buying licensing to make games for expensive existing IP's, hell they even made games for Film/TV shows can't imagine the licensing for that was cheap. Combine that with terrible upper management that only cared about revenue and nothing for their consumers or even their employee's and its honestly surprising they didn't fold far sooner.