Sega has canceled their upcoming 4v4 Live-Service Shooter Hyenas close to when the game was anticipated to launch. Sega announced this news in an official press release, citing that this decision was reached due to “the lower profitability of the European region.” Alongside the announcement that Hyenas would end development, Sega stated that several unannounced titles would also be terminated due to company-wide structural reform.
Hyenas was intended to be a long-form Live service title where two teams of heisters attempted to steal collectibles such as a Sonic The Hedgehog statue among other objects. To accomplish this the two teams would have to fight each other in a similar fashion to a Lawbreakers meets Overwatch, with a splash of Payday in there for good measure. Since these levels were set to be on large space station-like structures, the game would play with gravity, with players being able to turn it off which caused zero gravity firefights.
Prior to this, Hyenas was the source of some contention within the company. During an earning call back in August, executives stated that the game was undergoing finalization on its business model. They then went on to describe the development of the game as “Challenging.” In addition to the cancelation of Hyenas, the game’s developer Creative Assembly is set to undergo layoffs. In a post on X (formerly Twitter) the developer stated:
We have made the incredibly difficult decision to begin a redundancy consultation process in some areas of our UK operations alongside ending development of Hyenas. This may, unfortunately, result in job losses.
Creative Assembly was founded in 1987 and was known primarily for porting Amiga games, until the development of their popular battle simulator series Total War. They were also the developers behind the popular horror title Alien: Isolation. They were acquired by Sega in March of 2005.
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