Specialist RPG studio's unannounced Warhammer game revealed following layoffs
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Summary
An unannounced cooperative RPG title based on a Games Workshop IP has been cancelled, according to a report by MP1st.
Thought Pennies, the developer behind the now-cancelled project, has let go of a significant number of employees, as confirmed by the company’s former Chief Creative Officer, Daniel Erickson, on LinkedIn.
MP1st pieced together details of the game from former employee’s resumes, with the game said to be a “multiplatform, social role-playing game” or a “fantasy live-service RPG”.
It is unclear which of Games Workshop’s franchises the game would have been based on, although the generic reference to a “fantasy” setting could imply that it would have been set in the Age of Sigmar or Warhammer Fantasy universe.
It is presumed that Games Workshop pulled the plug on the project, although it seems the company doesn’t normally fund games directly, rather renting out its IP for a cut of the resale.
The report speculates that the reason for the game’s cancellation may be down to the success of Space Marine 2, which may have caused the company to refocus its attention on future projects.