Digital Arts has canceled its Black Panther recreation and closed down developer Cliffhanger Video games. IGN, which first reported the information, cites an inner electronic mail through which EA Leisure president Laura Miele notified workers in regards to the adjustments made to “sharpen our focus and put our artistic power behind essentially the most important progress alternatives.”
“These selections are arduous,” Miele wrote, per IGN. “They have an effect on folks we’ve labored with, discovered from, and shared actual moments with. We’re doing every little thing we are able to to assist them — together with discovering alternatives inside EA, the place we’ve had success serving to folks land in new roles.”
The e-mail continues, detailing that EA will now shift assets to the traditionally profitable Battlefield, The Sims, Skate, and Apex Legends collection. Miele additionally stated {that a} recreation primarily based on Iron Man remains to be within the works, as is the third entry in Respawn’s Star Wars Jedi collection and BioWare’s subsequent entry in Mass Impact.
EA beforehand laid off round 300 staff throughout each Respawn Leisure and Digital Artwork’s Fan Care groups in April 2025. Selection reported on the time that EA had successfully canceled the following Titanfall recreation and one other unnamed recreation in “early-stage incubation.”
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Black Panther was first introduced by Marvel Video games, EA, and Cliffhanger Video games in 2023. The sport was a part of a three-game deal that Marvel Video games reached with EA that additionally contains an Iron Man recreation developed by Motive. EA established the Seattle-based Cliffhanger Video games in 2023 to work on the Black Panther recreation, which coincided with the 57th anniversary of the hero. The studio, led by former Monolith govt Kevin Stephens, was staffed by builders identified for engaged on collection like Halo, God of Warfare, and Name of Obligation.
Based on a Marvel press launch, the Black Panther recreation was set to be “an unique, third-person, single-player Black Panther recreation…that empowers gamers to expertise what it’s wish to tackle the mantle of Wakanda’s protector, the Black Panther.”