Techland the developer of the game Dying Light has now announced the cancellation of the next new upcoming, unspecified projects. The announcement come during the time of struggle for the company, the reported record multi-,illion dollar losses in the 2023 and 2024. The news has said that the some fans reeling, as they are wary of what will happen with the studio future titles.
Looking at the report by Insider Gaming, the developer sent the press release to media outlets stating the two of the upcoming games which had been canceled, they did not confirm which title was affected. Insider Gaming reported that one of the projects was known as internally as Project Cornerstone and would which have been fantasy action games inspired as Star Wars.
In the announcement of the cancellation news, Techland released that the further statement to Insider Gaming, clarifying the motivation and addressing the widespread concern among the members of the gaming audience.
Techland stated that Game development is never straight line, and some fresh approaches aer necessary to make great games. The important is that none of the reported changes have resulted in the staff reducitions. The developer were moved to other projects and were working on the number of games in our pipeline. The primary focus now is to release Dying Light: The Beast for PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S.
In Janurary, Sony announced the cancellation of two the live service games, and the making in the 10th such cancellation in the three years. Gaming journalist Jason Schreir reported that the one was titles was to live serviceGod of War game. The Halo and God of War series under the threat, it is like no franchise is safe from the current environment, no matter how iconic.
Fans were also disappointed by the cancellation of the unreleased Techland titles, some of were ringing alarm bells about the stats of big studios and AAA gaming. The common sentiment among the gaming consumers is that the large companies have reached a tipping point, the increasingly unable to produce financially stable titles because of the long development cycles for the games and the complex industry landscape.
In 1991 the Poland based developer Techland found wide critical and commercial success with the Dying Light in 2015, and had sold over 30 million copies since the release. Well it was also known for the Dead Island another zombies survival game, and the developing the western themed first person shooter Call of Juarez and will also be remored to be receiving the sequel currently in the development.
Back in 2023 multinational Chinese Giant Tencent purchased the controlling share in Techland, which was largest Mergers and Acquisitions deal made in the Poland history. Techland founder and CEO Pawel Marchewka said that the deal would allow them to move at full speed ahead with the execution of the vision for the game.
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