We have been this rattling near having the Legacy of Kain collection again once more, in accordance with a brand new report from the folks over at Insider Gaming, however plans have been scuppered when Eidos Montreal was purchased by Embracer.
Public CVs from former Eidos Montreal workers have revealed that the corporate was engaged on a “Darkish fantasy ARPG” previous to being laid off. Nevertheless, Insider Gaming claims that sources have informed them that the sport was truly a “tender 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 as a result of 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 properly 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 tasks. They’ve wound up doing quite a lot of assist 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 price, however the funding is just too large 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 traditional titles to its playable library.