{"id":139773,"date":"2025-05-28T22:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T22:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/139773\/"},"modified":"2025-05-28T22:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T22:04:08","slug":"ea-cancels-black-panther-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/139773\/","title":{"rendered":"EA cancels Black Panther game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">EA\u2019s Black Panther game has been canceled. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/ea-cancels-black-panther-game-closes-cliffhanger-studios\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to reporting from IGN<\/a>, EA announced the news via an email to employees. IGN also reports that as a result of the cancellation, Cliffhanger Games has been shut down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">According to IGN, the cancellation comes with layoffs in other sectors of EA\u2019s business. The publisher recently announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/667441\/ea-return-to-office-work-hybrid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an RTO mandate<\/a> requiring employees come in at least three days a week, and a round of layoffs occurred earlier this year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/658468\/ea-layoffs-respawn-entertainment-titanfall-canceled\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">impacting between 300 and 400 employees<\/a>. The Verge has reached out to EA for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The game\u2019s cancellation does not spell the end for the hope of a Black Panther-led title. Over at Skydance New Media, Amy Hennig and team are working on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/games\/666270\/marvel-1943-rise-of-hydra-delayed-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra<\/a>, which features Captain America and Black Panther as playable characters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\"><strong>Correction, May 28th: <\/strong>An earlier version of this story misstated the names of the developers involved. It has been corrected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EA\u2019s Black Panther game has been canceled. According to reporting from IGN, EA announced the news via an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[77,1583,12,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-139773","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-gaming","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114587727561864211","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}