Insider Gaming has reported that Eidos Montreal, who in a single day confirmed it had laid off over 120 individuals, has cancelled a challenge referred to as Wildlands, aka P11, which had been within the works for over seven years and value lots of of thousands and thousands of {dollars}.
Sources informed the positioning that P11 had been struggling for various years now, and through the course of its turbulent growth interval no fewer than 4 completely different sport engines had been used for the challenge. It additionally suffered from conflicts over its narrative director, and a funds that swelled to over 9 figures. It was as a result of rising funds that Eidos Montreal canned various different titles, together with a brand new Deus Ex again in January 2024.
Footage that was seen by Insider Gaming (on the situation that it might not be made out there for public consumption), confirms that Wildlands was an open-world third-person journey sport, the place gamers assumed the function of River. This character was a part of the Spiritbounds, a gaggle of youngsters who had been capable of fend off dangerous spirits with magical staffs in addition to mount legendary creatures. River was accompanied by Redheart, a big moose-like creature that you might use to navigate the open world.
The report provides that Wildland was practically full, and had not too long ago handed key milestones and had entered the debugging part, with a launch window set for later in 2026.
Again in January this yr, Insider Gaming reported that the layoffs that had impacted Eidos Montreal the earlier month had been associated to P11, with various workers being let go from the challenge. On the time, it was revealed by way of X person Timur222 that the corporate was engaged on a AAAA title utilizing Unreal Engine 5, and Tom Henderson adopted this up by stating it was certainly the aforementioned P11.
[Source – Insider Gaming]
