We had been this rattling near having the Legacy of Kain collection again once more, in response to a brand new report from the people over at Insider Gaming, however plans had been scuppered when Eidos Montreal was purchased by Embracer.
Public CVs from former Eidos Montreal staff have revealed that the corporate was engaged on a “Darkish fantasy ARPG” previous to being laid off. Nonetheless, Insider Gaming claims that sources have advised them that the sport was really a “delicate reboot” of Legacy of Kain, and that it was cancelled a couple of years in the past.
Insider Gaming goes on to say that the venture – dubbed P16 attributable to it being the studios sixteenth venture – was round a 12 months into improvement when it was cancelled. Regardless of this, Insider Gaming says that it was apparently doing effectively and even had some barebones gameplay.
It isn’t recognized why Embracer pulled the plug and despatched the IP again to Crystal Dyanamics, nor, sadly, does Insider Gaming know if Crystal Dynamics is doing is something with it.
Eidos Montreal is a studio that has sadly confronted many hardships, together with a number of rounds of layoffs and quite a few cancelled initiatives. They’ve wound up doing quite a lot of help work, like serving to out on the upcoming Fable for Xbox. However they’re engaged on a brand new inner venture that was begun in 2019. Insider Gaming’s sources inform them the venture already has a number of hundred million {dollars} into it and that it’s unlikely to recoup that value, however the funding is simply too huge for it to be cancelled, at this level.
As for Legacy of Kain, it did make a short comeback within the type of the unique video games getting launched on PlayStation as a part of PlayStation’s ongoing efforts so as to add basic titles to its playable library.
