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Title: People Can Fly cancels two games and lays off developers

Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2025 22:03:11 +0000
Link: https://www.engadget.com/gaming/people-can-fl...

People Can Fly, the developer of Outriders and Gears of War: Judgement,
announced Monday that its ending development on two of its upcoming games due
to issues with its publisher and an inability to secure funding to continue
development. As part of this decision, People Can Fly will be forced
"significantly regroup" and "scale down [its] teams," the studio's CEO
Sebastian Wojciechowksi shared in a statement on LinkedIn.

The statement doesn't elaborate on how many staff will be impacted by the
cuts, but does call out Project Gemini and Project Bifrost as the two games
being cancelled. People Can Fly made the decision to shut down Gemini because
the game's publisher failed to provide a publishing agreement and didn't
communicate "its willingness to continue or terminate the Gemini project."
Without that publishing deal or the funds to continue working on Bifrost ΓÇö
a self-published VR game ΓÇö the studio was forced to cancel it, too.

This isn't the first time People Can Fly has shut down a project or made cuts
to its teams. In December 2024, the studio announced that it was ending
development on a game called Project Victoria and also reducing the number of
people working on Bifrost. In that same announcement, People Can Fly also
revealed that Square Enix was publishing Gemini.

People Can Fly last worked with Square Enix to publish Outriders, somewhat of
a minor cult hit now, but not a commercial success at launch. Even with the
cuts and cancelled games, the studio still has multiple upcoming projects in
the works, including Project Delta, which People Can Fly is creating for Sony
and Gears of War: E-Day, which the studio is co-developing with Xbox studio
The Coalition.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at
https://www.engadget.com/gaming/people-can-fl...
developers-220310524.html?src=rss

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