People Can Fly cancels two projects and will lay off workers

Individuals Can Fly has introduced it has cancelled two in-development initiatives and can endure a spherical of layoffs.

“Right this moment we made the very troublesome choice to droop the event of undertaking Gemini and undertaking Bifrost,” wrote Individuals Can Fly CEO Sebastian Wojciechowski on the studio’s LinkedIn page. “Consequently we have now to considerably regroup as a studio and scale down our groups.” Little was recognized publicly about both undertaking.

The Warsaw-based studio recognized for Bulletstorm and Outriders has been having difficulties with a few of its in-development initiatives for some time now. In December, a notice from the company acknowledged it could droop manufacturing on a undertaking codenamed Victoria and cut back the staff engaged on Bifrost. In at this time’s announcement, Wojciechowski wrote that cancellations have been as a result of an unspecified writer’s failure to current essential publishing agreements, and a “lack of communication” concerning whether or not or not the writer desires to proceed with improvement.

The assertion additionally attributed the cancellations to points with the writer’s money move stating it, “confirmed an absence of prospects for securing organizational assets and funds essential to proceed the manufacturing.” And the title of the writer? It isn’t precisely a thriller. Within the developer’s assertion from December, Individuals Can Fly named its collaborator on Venture Gemini as Sq. Enix.Individuals Can Fly — which was acquired by Epic Video games in 2012 earlier than going impartial once more in 2015 — will proceed improvement on Xbox’s subsequent Gears of Warfare title, Gears of War: E-Day, as a accomplice studio working with The Coalition.