Following the less-than-optimal launch of The Lord of The Rings: Gollum, its developer Daedaelic Leisure is quitting the event facet of the enterprise.
In line with a report by German web site Video games Wirtschaft, the Hamburg-based studio will now focus solely on publishing, describing this as a “troublesome turning level” however “a brand new starting within the lengthy historical past of Daedalic Leisure.”
Sadly, because of this 25 of the corporate’s 90m staff have been let go, albeit the studio pledges to assist them to find new jobs.
Daedaelic had been engaged on one other The Lord of the Rings sport, and work on that has been halted. Then again, the brand new survival sport based mostly on the studio’s long-running Deponia collection, Surviving Deponia (revealed on the Future Video games Present) is being developed externally by AtomicTorch, so it will not be affected.
A couple of months in the past, Daedaelic launched The Lord of The Rings: Gollum to pretty unflattering evaluations, with our personal Brittany Alva calling it “an expertise that did not do Gollum’s character justice” in her evaluate.
The standard of the sport at launch prompted the studio to publish a public apology for the “underwhelming expertise,” additionally promising patches to repair among the points. The sport is at the moment accessible for PS5, PS4, Xbox Collection X|S, Xbox One, and PC, with a Nintendo Change model coming down the road.
Daedaelic Leisure was based in 2007 and it was just lately acquired by Nacon in 2022.
