Now, Marszał has offered a fuller account of the cancellation.

All this comes froma Eurogamer reportpenned by Prince Robert of Purchese.

Its story was a process of working through the five stages of grief after losing a loved one.

A partly clad young masculine character kneeling in a dark wilderness area with a glowing firebird on a branch nearby, from the cancelled game working-titled Project 8.

In brief, it sounds like a mixture ofGris, Prince of Persia, and the recentSouth of Midnight.

So why was it abandoned?

All this was, of course, exacerbated by wider factors such as the Covid pandemic.

“And it was a bit too optimistic to be honest.

And making games isn’t easy.

It’s very difficult stuff.”

It was just too ambitious.

Either [cancel it] or we will spend another tens of millions of dollars and fail heavily."

Marszał has now confirmed that 18 people were let go.

If you’re one of them, I hope you’ve found your feet elsewhere.