01-22-2025, 11:50 AM
News - Unknown 9 Deemed A "Failure" As Developer Cancels Future Project And Confirms
<p>Unknown 9: Awakening developer Reflector Entertainment has deemed its first game as a failure and has canceled a future project, resulting in layoffs.</p><p>"This decision correlates directly with the failure of the studio's ambitious and courageous first project, a new IP with a rich transmedia universe," said Reflector Entertainment CEO and Bandai Namco Europe CCO Herve Hoerdt in <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/reflector-entertainment_activity-7287227402995269633-s4i-/">a statement on LinkedIn</a><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/reflector-entertainment_activity-7287227402995269633-s4i-/">.</a> "The performance of the release didn't come near the company expectations, after numerous timeline adjustments and investments, both financially and other, and didn't warrant any further exploration in this universe."</p><p>Reflector Entertainment will now adopt a single-project approach for the foreseeable future, and some staff will be reassigned to another existing Bandai Namco IP. Hoerdt said that the studio's previously planned future project was canceled because it wouldn't be sustainable, and that decision will lead to layoffs. Those who are impacted by layoffs will receive severance packages and extended health benefits.</p><a href="https://www.gamespot.com/articles/unknown-9-deemed-a-failure-as-developer-cancels-future-project-and-confirms-layoffs/1100-6528909/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f/">Continue Reading at GameSpot</a>
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/unknow...01-10abi2f
<p>Unknown 9: Awakening developer Reflector Entertainment has deemed its first game as a failure and has canceled a future project, resulting in layoffs.</p><p>"This decision correlates directly with the failure of the studio's ambitious and courageous first project, a new IP with a rich transmedia universe," said Reflector Entertainment CEO and Bandai Namco Europe CCO Herve Hoerdt in <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/reflector-entertainment_activity-7287227402995269633-s4i-/">a statement on LinkedIn</a><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/reflector-entertainment_activity-7287227402995269633-s4i-/">.</a> "The performance of the release didn't come near the company expectations, after numerous timeline adjustments and investments, both financially and other, and didn't warrant any further exploration in this universe."</p><p>Reflector Entertainment will now adopt a single-project approach for the foreseeable future, and some staff will be reassigned to another existing Bandai Namco IP. Hoerdt said that the studio's previously planned future project was canceled because it wouldn't be sustainable, and that decision will lead to layoffs. Those who are impacted by layoffs will receive severance packages and extended health benefits.</p><a href="https://www.gamespot.com/articles/unknown-9-deemed-a-failure-as-developer-cancels-future-project-and-confirms-layoffs/1100-6528909/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f/">Continue Reading at GameSpot</a>
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/unknow...01-10abi2f