Dying Light developers Techland are cancelling two games, according to report

One could beryllium their Witchery phantasy RPG

It ne'er rains but it pours, arsenic we accidental successful aged London town. Hard connected the heels of Microsoft's gargantuan wide layoffs yesterday, which travel respective crippled cancellations and person besides seemingly led to layoffs astatine Romero Games, Dying Light developers Techland person reportedly cancelled 2 projects. They've haven't said which, but successful the lack of known alternatives, 1 of them could beryllium their untitled unfastened satellite phantasy action-RPG from erstwhile employees of CD Projekt.

Techland, who are a subsidiary of Tencent via bulk stake, are presently moving connected Dying Light: The Beast, a crippled of wide unfastened horizons and puckish zombo head-platforming, which I played astatine Summer Game Fest and mostly enjoyed. Highlights: fleeing super-mutant cadavers successful the dark, from rooftop to rooftop. Less fun: having cars thrown astatine maine by a bullet-sponge boss. That's him successful the representation there. Up yours, you greasy Bruce Bannerlike.

Back successful 2022, Techland besides announced "a caller phantasy epic acceptable successful a sprawling unfastened world". Last we heard, it was being made by erstwhile developers of Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher series, amongst them unfastened satellite manager Bartosz Ochman, communicative manager Karolina Stachyra, and communicative pb Arkadiusz Borowik. But each that whitethorn beryllium nary more, for Techland person conscionable reported losses of 130 cardinal Polish złoty oregon astir $37.3 million, according to Polish concern tract Puls Biznesu (via VGC). These losses stem from "our determination to discontinue further enactment connected 2 projects."

I'll inquire Techland for comment. If you're wondering wherefore determination are truthful galore layoffs happening, it's not conscionable the games industry's wide enshittification - it's the extremity of a fiscal quarter, a play successful which book-balancers similar to get retired their reddish pens and polish the aged cost/revenue ratio for the investors.