People Can Fly cancels two projects and will lay off workers

People Can Fly has announced it has cancelled 2 in-development projects and volition acquisition a circular of layoffs. 

“Today we made the precise hard determination to suspend the improvement of task Gemini and task Bifrost,” wrote People Can Fly CEO Sebastian Wojciechowski on the studio’s LinkedIn page. “As a effect we person to importantly regroup arsenic a workplace and standard down our teams.” Little was known publically astir either project.

The Warsaw-based workplace known for Bulletstorm and Outriders  has been having difficulties with immoderate of its in-development projects for a portion now. In December, a announcement from the company stated it would suspend accumulation connected a task codenamed Victoria and trim the squad moving connected Bifrost. In today’s announcement, Wojciechowski wrote that cancellations were owed to an unspecified publisher’s nonaccomplishment to contiguous indispensable publishing agreements, and a “lack of communication” regarding whether oregon not the steadfast wants to proceed with development. 

The connection besides attributed the cancellations to issues with the publisher’s currency travel stating it, “showed a deficiency of prospects for securing organizational resources and funds indispensable to proceed the production.” And the sanction of the publisher? It isn’t precisely a mystery. In the developer’s connection from December, People Can Fly named its collaborator connected Project Gemini arsenic Square Enix.

People Can Fly — which was acquired by Epic Games successful 2012 earlier going autarkic again successful 2015 — will proceed improvement connected Xbox’s adjacent Gears of War title, Gears of War: E-Day, arsenic a spouse workplace moving with The Coalition.