The studio Possibility Space has been shut down, efficient immediately. Now-former studio workers have introduced their departure.
Senior recreation designer Brendan McLeod acknowledged that everyone at Possibility Space was laid off, and others similar to former senior environmental artist Matt Graczyk and lead techniques engineer Kyle Kukshtel have confirmed their layoffs.
Based on Polygon, Possibility Space proprietor Jeff Pressure blamed the studio closure on its workers leaking info to the press about its upcoming recreation, Challenge Vonnegut. Because of this, Pressure claims the studio was unable to safe extra assets from the challenge’s writer and determined to cancel it as an alternative.
That is the second studio to be closed underneath dad or mum firm Prytania Media. Final month, Prytania Media closed down Crop Circle Games. There are two different studios remaining, that are Dawon Leisure and Fang & Claw, nevertheless it’s unclear what their standing is.
Pressure is finest generally known as the cofounder of ArenaNet and labored on Guild Wars, in addition to the founding father of Undead Labs, the studio behind the State of Decay sequence. After the studio was acquired by Microsoft in 2018, he left and based Possibility Space in 2021. Pressure’s leaked observe to employees acknowledged that he’s “stepping away from the sport trade.”