UPDATE: Ubisoft has issued a press release on the cancellation of Immortals Fenyx Rising 2.
“As a part of our international technique, we’re redirecting and reallocating some artistic groups and assets inside the Quebec studio to different unannounced initiatives,” Ubisoft stated in a press release issued to IGN. “The experience and applied sciences these groups developed will function an accelerator for the event of those key initiatives targeted on our greatest manufacturers. We have now nothing additional to share presently.”
ORIGINAL STORY: Ubisoft has reportedly canceled its plans for a sequel to Immortals Fenyx Rising. This determination was made earlier this month by Ubisoft’s management as a consequence of difficulties establishing it as an IP.
Based on VGC, the sequel was reportedly in improvement at Ubisoft Quebec, the identical studio answerable for the primary recreation. Whereas Immortals Fenyx Rising acquired optimistic opinions, it reportedly solely offered a reasonable quantity of copies. Lots of the models offered apparently got here from heavy discounting throughout gross sales. Moreover, its European gross sales had been reportedly 70% decrease than Murderer’s Creed Valhalla’s throughout the same interval.
Ubisoft has not too long ago pivoted to give attention to its most outstanding franchises akin to Murderer’s Creed, so it is perhaps unsurprising {that a} deliberate Immortals Fenyx Rising sequel was canceled. In any case, Murderer’s Creed Mirage is launching later this 12 months, and Ubisoft is reportedly engaged on a remake of Murderer’s Creed IV: Black Flag.
In January, Ubisoft additionally revealed that it had canceled three different unannounced video games, and VGC experiences that this sequel is not one in every of them. One other recreation, Cranium and Bones, has suffered delay after delay since its preliminary reveal in 2017. Nonetheless, it’s lastly getting a closed beta subsequent month and can be launched in the course of the 2023-2024 fiscal 12 months.
Immortals Fenyx Rising first launched in December 2020. In IGN’s Immortals Fenyx Rising overview, we stated, “Immortals Fenyx Rising offers us a beautiful world to discover, full of mythological beasts, deities, and powers to wield. Its fight is satisfying, with loads of selection in upgrades, whereas its central characters, comedic tone, and storytelling are an actual spotlight.”
George Yang is a contract author for IGN. He is been writing concerning the business since 2019 and has labored with different publications akin to Insider, Kotaku, NPR, and Selection.
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