It seems that the London-based team must be under a bit of stress, because what’s leaked from the game announced two years ago doesn’t seem so terribly bad.

Splash Damage is best known for Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory and Gears Tactics (but they also worked on Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, among others), and it was announced at The Game Awards in December 2022 that the Hasbro IP would be turned into a four-player cooperative action game for PC and consoles. Development has recently been halted.

It’s not known exactly where the leaked gameplay came from, but there are several indications that it was leaked from within Splash Damage (perhaps not directly, but by giving the footage to someone else), as it appears to be very much a developer build and logically only accessible from within the studio. In the video (embedded below) you can see some external view shooting, as well as vehicular combat. It doesn’t look bad, which is why we can’t understand why the project had to be scrapped…

It might have something to do with who owns the studio. In December 2020, the Chinese tech giant Tencent bought Leyou. In October 2021, already under Tencent, the studio announced that Splash Damage was working on a new sci-fi IP. This could be the next one to be dropped, as Chinese companies aren’t doing so well outside of the domestic arena right now, so there could be financial problems around Tencent and NetEase if the studios that are part of those companies don’t bring in the money. (At least NetEase has the successful Marvel Rivals…)

Splash Damage will be downsizing, so we’ll probably have to expect layoffs in the short term as well. The question is how Project Astrid, their open-world survival game announced for March 2023, will fare alongside the sci-fi IP…

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