Zynga officially closed Echtra Games, Studio Development Za Torchlight 3, which in four years worked on unannounced ARPG platforms.
Ign may confirm that the studio from San Francisco will be closed until the end of the month. Although we have no influence on the exact number of people, LinkedIn has 61 people who List your current work in the studio.
Zynga provided the following Ign statement:
Zynga made a hard decision to stop the operation in his studio Echtra, ending the development of future titles and reducing the role. This decision is part of the company’s strategic alignment of the company’s resources and priorities. We will cooperate closely with affected employees so that they are treated with the highest respect and consideration when moving in this hard trial.
Echtra Games was founded by Max Schaefer, one of the co -founders of Runic Games programmers, and earlier co -founder of Blizzard North and co -creator of Diablo. Schaefer left Rigic after his co -founders left the studio similarly and founded Echtra at the Investor Perfect World to work on MMO Torchlight. Over time, the vision of the game changed, ultimately becoming the boundaries of the lantern and later Torchlight 3. In 2021 purchased by ZyngaLeaving Torchlight 3 in the hands of the perfect world and starting work “A recent, still announced RPG for the interplace game“Together with CSR and Star Wars: Hunters Developer Naturalmotion.
Unfortunately, RPG Echtra Games has never been announced or shown. It is not clear why Echtra has been closed, although its closure will take place only three months after the announcement that Zynga will close Star Wars developed by the Natural Motion: Hunters this year-Decision, which was announced only nine months after starting the match. In particular, Zynga is a subsidiary of the Grand Theft Auto Publisher Take-Two Interactive, which he slowly dismantled and then sold his private publishing house at the beginning of this year. The publisher also dismissed about 5% of the workforce just over a year ago and canceled many projects.
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