SEGA has canned the in-development shooter created by Creative Assembly, Hyenas. According to the studio, they weren’t notified of the sport’s cancellation till the early hours of yesterday morning (afternoon time in our area).
The space-set shooter was in growth at Creative Assembly and even underwent an open beta final month to nice success. It would see gamers run round an area station looting objects whereas heading off opposing groups. If something, the sport had the potential to be one thing nice. Sadly, that may by no means occur now as SEGA has binned all growth on the undertaking.
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It will get worse than only a cancelled recreation. The cancellation of Hyenas has additionally resulted in main layoffs at Creative Assembly. Of course, SEGA isn’t blaming Hyenas for the disruption on the firm. The firm claims the cancellation of the sport, amongst different unannounced tasks, is because of the “decrease profitability of the European area”.
SEGA is just reducing again. If something, the corporate hasn’t had a knockout recreation in a very long time now so that is anticipated. It is simply unhappy to see tasks being canned earlier than they get launched to the general public and folks shedding work.
Hyenas was in growth for PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. The recreation lately hosted a beta which gamers appeared to take pleasure in. Sadly, the sport additionally fell into the identical “shooter” spectrum as many different latest titles. We don’t know what Creative Assembly will do now or whether or not or not different tasks from the workforce can be affected.
In a press release from the studio, Creative Assembly says that its dedication to its different tasks has not modified. This provides us hope that the studio remains to be engaged on extra thrilling tasks.
Following an inner announcement to our workers, please see the beneath assertion: pic.twitter.com/b6LPonVagV
— Creative Assembly (@CAGames) September 28, 2023
