Eidos Montreal's next Deus Ex game has allegedly been canceled by parent company Embracer, with an unspecified number of staff let go.
Per Bloomberg, the cancellation and resulting layoffs continue the Swedish company's cost-cutting initiative from mid-2023. And it comes months after Crystal Dynamics was hit with its own reductions.
While the project's cancellation hasn't been fully confirmed, several Eidos staffers have corroborated the studio's layoffs and said they're looking for work.
Read the full story at Game Developer.
Imagine buying this entire catalog for just $300 million:
Crystal Dynamics, Eidos-Montréal, Square Enix Montréal, and a catalogue of IPs including Tomb Raider, Deus Ex, Thief, Legacy of Kain and more than 50 back-catalogue games
Immediately doubling your money from the worst trade in history, by just renting out ONE of the above for, allegedly, $600 million. (Jesus fucking Christ, Square)
And despite all that, you still can't produce a single game and still lay off studio after studio? Why even buy it, just because you can? Why even sit on a pile of gold, when you don't even know how to use the fucking gold?
I used to really like Embracer, too, back in the Nordic days. This is just a depressing level of incompetence.
