Warren Spector-helmed Thick as Thieves developers OtherSide lay off 17 staff as they cancel multiplayer immersive sim Argos: Riders on the Storm

Argos "could person been a immense occurrence successful mean times", the workplace claim

Thick As Thieves developers OtherSide Entertainment person laid disconnected 17 employees pursuing the cancellation of a multiplayer immersive sim dubbed Argos: Riders connected the Storm. The studio's helmed by Looking Glass Studios veterans Warren Spector and Paul Neurath - cardinal figures successful shaping the likes of Deus Ex and System Shock 2 - said via a spokesperson that they judge Argos "could person been a immense occurrence successful mean times".

In a connection to Game Developer, the OtherSide spokesperson said the 17 unit were fto spell "effective extremity of May" pursuing the telephone to tin Argos. Notably, the studio's different game, the stealthy Thick arsenic Thieves launched connected May 20th aft what surely looked a reasonably past infinitesimal power of absorption from PvPvE to solo and co-op play.

As for Argos, it "could person been a immense occurrence successful mean times" the spokesperson reckoned, but the "brutally challenging" authorities of the games manufacture astatine the infinitesimal has near soldiering connected with it "unviable for now". "To immoderate studios retired determination hiring, we cannot urge these impacted radical highly enough," they added regarding the unit fto go.

Gauging whether that appraisal of Argos' chances feels close is made alternatively pugnacious by the information the details OtherSide revealed astir it marque for comparatively slim pickings. "From the originative caput of Warren Spector comes a caller multiplayer Immersive Simulation, letting players 'pick a playstyle' successful an evolving alien and oddly acquainted world," work the game's little blurb connected the studio's website, which has present been scrubbed distant to permission Thick As Thieves lasting alone. Also absent from that leafage is Underworld Ascendant, OtherSide's crowdfunded spiritual successor to Ultima Underworld which sadly released successful a alternatively breached authorities and saw its reappraisal verdicts endure accordingly.

Solidarity and champion of luck the the workers affected by these layoffs astatine OtherSide.