EA cancels Black Panther game

EA’s Black Panther crippled has been cancelled. According to reporting from IGN, EA announced the quality via an email to employees. IGN besides reports that arsenic a effect of the cancellation, Cliffhanger Studios has been unopen down.

Cliffhanger Studios was a caller games studio created to make Black Panther and tally by Kevin Stephens who was the workplace caput for the present shuttered Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor developer Monolith Studios. Beyond an archetypal announcement successful 2023, each that was known of Black Panther was that it was a single-player crippled with an archetypal communicative and developed successful collaboration with Marvel Studios. EA and Marvel announced a three-game concern woody successful 2022. In summation to Black Panther, the different 2 games successful the woody was an Iron Man rubric currently successful accumulation astatine Motive Studios, and an as-yet unannounced enactment game.

According to IGN, the cancellation comes with layoffs successful different sectors of EA’s business. The steadfast precocious announced an RTO mandate requiring employees travel successful astatine slightest 3 days a week and a circular of layoffs occurred earlier this twelvemonth impacting betwixt 300 and 400 employees. The Verge has reached retired to EA for comment.

The game’s cancellation does not spell the extremity for the anticipation of a Black Panther led title. Over astatine Skybound Entertainment, Amy Henning and squad are moving connected Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra which features Captain America and Black Panther arsenic playable characters.