Bad news if you were a fan of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Mass Effect: Andromeda or the new episodic Hitman. The developers behind both games are having a rough time, with lead Andromeda studio BioWare Montreal⛦ reportedly being scaled down, the Mass ꧃Effect franchise put on hiatus, and Hitman dev IO Interactive being prepared for sale by publisher Square Enix.

Anonymous sources who spoke to confirmed that the Mass Effect series has been put on ice, and it's hard not to imagine it was a direct response to Andromeda's cool reception. It'll probably return again someday - there's still a lot of love for Mass Effect out there - but not for the immediate future. Some of the staff at BioWare Montreal have been reassigned to 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Star Wars Battlefront 2 developer Motiv♏e Studios (the two studios share office space) while others remain to support Mass Effect: Andromeda through further updates and multiplayer expansions.

The future is less certain for Hitman. Square Enix announced in a dryly titled "Notice of Booking of Extraordinary Loss" that it began procedures to "withdraw from the business" of IO ༒Interactive as🐲 of March 31. Square Enix has owned the Danish developer since it purchased IO's parent company Eidos back in 2009. The only explanation offered for the decision in the press release was that Square Enix was focusing its "resources and energies on key franchises and studios", which makes it sound like the episodic Hitman experiment didn't bring in the money that Square Enix was hoping for.