Tuesday, March 31st 2026 Eidos Montreal Cancels Unannounced Open-World Adventure Game 7 Years in Development as Studio Rocked by Layoffs by Cpt.Jank Today, 12:14 Discuss (0 ) Eidos Montreal announced earlier this week in a LinkedIn post that it was laying off 124 of its employees and that its studio director, David Anfossi was leaving. The studio explained that the layoffs are a result of necessary cost-cutting measures and evolving project needs. The layoffs would affect both production and support teams, and the studio says that they are necessary cuts to allow the studio to concentrate its efforts where it can be most effective. Now, new reporting seems to suggest that the layoffs may have been partially caused by a game whose budget had ballooned and caused financial strain in the studio. Following the layoffs, Insider Gaming reports that Eidos, who had previously worked on Deus Ex: Mankind Divided and Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, has also cancelled Wildlands, an in-development open-source action-adventure game that the studio had been working on for seven years. The publication reports that WIldlands had had a somewhat troubled development cycle prior to its cancellation, with the team having gone through four different game engines and burned through hundreds of millions of dollars in budget. These reports are further backed up by Jason Schreier's on Reddit. Further, according to Insider Gaming's sources, the game was in the debugging phase and nearing completion before Embracer, Eidos's parent company, shut it down. Sources: Eidos-Montreal on LinkedIn, Insider Gaming Related News Tags: action adventure cancel Deus Ex: Mankind Divided development Eidos employees Game Games Gaming Layoffs Montreal open-source production Studio Mar 6th 2026 PlayStation 6 Leak Tips 4K 120 FPS "In Most Games" With 6-12× RT Performance of PS5 (116) Dec 8th 2025 Valve Trying to Unblock Open-Source HDMI 2.1 Support on Steam Machine (37) Dec 17th 2025 Half-Life 3 May Launch Alongside Steam Machine in Early 2026 (78) Sep 29th 2025 EA's New Owner Plans AI Pivot 'To Significantly Cut Operating Costs'— Report (39) Feb 28th 2026 Insider Confirms Sony Ditching PC Ports: "You'll Be Seeing Fewer Single Player Games Arrive on PC." (91) Feb 19th 2026 Sony Closes Bluepoint Games Following Cancelled Multiplayer God of War Game (14) Mar 6th 2026 Xbox Project Helix Officially Tipped As Next-Gen Console, Will "Play Your Xbox and PC Games" (47) Feb 28th 2026 Ubisoft Reworks Assassin's Creed Hexe Combat Deep Into Development, 2027 Launch Likely (16) Mar 18th 2026 Game Developers "Found Out At the Same Time as the Public" About NVIDIA DLSS 5 (50) Mar 15th 2026 This Week in Gaming (Week 12) (14) Add your own on Eidos Montreal Cancels Unannounced Open-World Adventure Game 7 Years in Development as Studio Rocked by Layoffs There are no yet.
