People Can Fly, the Polish studio best-known for Outriders and Gears of War Judgment, has confirmed even more jobs are at risk because it cancels two tasks: Project Gemini and Project Bifrost.
"Today we made a very difficult decision to suspend the development of project Gemini and project Bifrost — the relevant current reports have been released to the market," CEO Sebastian Wojciechowski wrote in a statement.
"The suspension of the Gemini project is a consequence of the fact that the Publisher has not presented us with a draft of the subsequent content rider to the Publishing Agreement covering the terms and conditions of further milestone on project Gemini and the lack of communication from the Publisher as to its willingness to continue or terminate the Gemini project.
"Project Bifrost was suspended due to the above and the evaluation of the Group's money move, which confirmed a lack of prospects for securing organisational assets and funds essential to proceed the manufacturing and release of this undertaking."
The CEO concluded: "As a consequence, we have now to considerably regroup as a studio and scale down our groups, which hurts essentially the most. We want to specific our deepest remorse and unhappiness over how these occasions have unfolded and our honest gratitude for everybody's contribution up thus far."
While the statement from Wojciechowski does not specific what publishing companies led to the decision to halt development, the Outriders developer's own website confirms Gemini was partnered with Square Enix, and Bifrost was a self-published project. Square Enix is yet to comment.
The company similarly "scaled down" growth on the latter when it laid off 120 workers at the end of last year. It can be working with Krafton and Sony on Project Echo and Delta, respectively, and Microsoft on Gears of War: E-Day.
People Can Fly's most up-to-date release is Bullestorm VR, an up to date model of the traditional shooter for Meta Quest and PSVR 2.
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