UPDATE: Ubisoft has issued an announcement on the cancellation of Immortals Fenyx Rising 2.
“As a part of our international technique, we’re redirecting and reallocating some inventive groups and assets throughout the Quebec studio to different unannounced tasks,” Ubisoft stated in an announcement issued to IGN. “The experience and applied sciences these groups developed will function an accelerator for the event of those key tasks targeted on our greatest manufacturers. We now have nothing additional to share presently.”
ORIGINAL STORY: Ubisoft has reportedly canceled its plans for a sequel to Immortals Fenyx Rising. This determination was made earlier this month by Ubisoft’s management resulting from difficulties establishing it as an IP.
In accordance with VGC, the sequel was reportedly in improvement at Ubisoft Quebec, the identical studio in command of the primary sport. Whereas Immortals Fenyx Rising acquired optimistic opinions, it reportedly solely bought a reasonable quantity of copies. Lots of the items bought apparently got here from heavy discounting throughout gross sales. Moreover, its European gross sales have been reportedly 70% decrease than Murderer’s Creed Valhalla’s throughout the same interval.
Ubisoft has just lately pivoted to concentrate on its most distinguished franchises equivalent to Murderer’s Creed, so it is perhaps unsurprising {that a} deliberate Immortals Fenyx Rising sequel was canceled. In any case, Murderer’s Creed Mirage is launching later this 12 months, and Ubisoft is reportedly engaged on a remake of Murderer’s Creed IV: Black Flag.
In January, Ubisoft additionally revealed that it had canceled three different unannounced video games, and VGC studies that this sequel is not one among them. One other sport, Cranium and Bones, has suffered delay after delay since its preliminary reveal in 2017. Nonetheless, it’s lastly getting a closed beta subsequent month and will likely be launched throughout the 2023-2024 fiscal 12 months.
Immortals Fenyx Rising first launched in December 2020. In IGN’s Immortals Fenyx Rising assessment, we stated, “Immortals Fenyx Rising provides us a stunning world to discover, stuffed with mythological beasts, deities, and powers to wield. Its fight is satisfying, with loads of selection in upgrades, whereas its central characters, comedic tone, and storytelling are an actual spotlight.”
George Yang is a contract author for IGN. He is been writing concerning the business since 2019 and has labored with different publications equivalent to Insider, Kotaku, NPR, and Selection.
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