Insider Gaming has reported that Eidos Montreal, who in a single day confirmed it had laid off over 120 folks, has cancelled a challenge referred to as Wildlands, aka P11, which had been within the works for over seven years and price tons of of hundreds of thousands of {dollars}.
Sources instructed the location that P11 had been struggling for a lot of years now, and in the course of the course of its turbulent growth interval no fewer than 4 totally 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 because of the rising funds that Eidos Montreal canned a lot of 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 position of River. This character was a part of the Spiritbounds, a bunch of youngsters who had been in a position to 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 almost 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 a lot of workers being let go from the challenge. On the time, it was revealed through 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]
