In an unexpected development, Sega has announced the cancellation of Creative Assembly’s Hyenas and other unannounced projects. The cancellation of Hyenas is particularly significant because the game was playable and even had a public demo just last month at Gamescom and a recent beta.

Sega announced Hyena’s cancellation in part of a restructuring, citing the lower profitability of the European region as the primary reason for the cancellations.

In response to the lower profitability of the European region, we have reviewed the title portfolio of each development base in Europe and the resulting action will be to cancel “HYENAS” and some unannounced titles under development. Accordingly, we will implement a write-down of work-in-progress for titles under development.

Sega further stated that the fixed expenses at Creative Assembly are also being reduced.

We will implement reduction of various fixed expenses at several group companies in relevant region, centered on the Creative Assembly Ltd. We expect to incur one-time expenses related to reduction of fixed expenses.

We will continue to consider measures to improve profitability in European bases apart from above. We will announce the specific details and impact from them as soon as we make decision.

Creative Assembly is currently working on Total War: Pharaoh, scheduled for launch on October 11, 2023.  However, the future of the studio’s employees is unclear because there’s no information about whether they will be affected in any way.

Hyenas was announced last year as an extraction shooter and was scheduled to be released this year, but unfortunately, it will not be seeing the light of day.

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Source: Sega