“Black Panther” video game canceled in electronic arts, layoffs

A Disney and Marvel video game “Black panther“Was put back to Publisher Electronic arts As part of the game developer closed, Cliffhanger Games.

Following the EA cliffhanger, several employees were dismissed both in this studio and in the Mobile and Central teams of EA. Variety confirmed that the number of staff members is less than 300 that EA dropped last month when it canceled his next game “Titanfall” plannedAnd the company works to place these people with other EA teams.

In an email sent to the staff on Wednesday, the president of EA Entertainment, Laura Miele, said that these movements had been asked to “refine our goal and put our creative energy behind the most important growth opportunities”.

The cuts intervene as the head of EA Andrew Wilson clearly indicated that the priority of the company is its biggest franchises, notably EA Sports, “The Sims”, “Battlefield” and “Apex Legends”, and the coming game “Skate”, rather than making games under license.

“These decisions are difficult,” said Miele. “They affect people with whom we have worked, learned and shared real moments. We do everything we can to support them – including the search for opportunities within EA, where we have managed to help people land in new roles. ”

EA representatives refused to comment.

This marks the third cycle of layoff that EA has made this year. In April, EA reduced its staff by more than 300 employees with approximately a third of the cuts made to the developer Respawn, who made “Titanfall” and an additional project, which were both in “incubation at an early stage”, according to Rapawn. The layoffs mainly affected the teams working on the games “Apex Legends” and “Star Wars Jedi”.

Ign The new EA layoffs were first reported and the cancellation of the “Black Panther” game.