Alone within the Dark developer Pieces Interactive has been shut down by the now notorious Embracer Group after the sport failed to satisfy expectations.
A press release on the developer’s website lists a 2007 to 2024 lifespan for Pieces Interactive alongside the message “thanks for taking part in with us.” It additionally presents a brief historical past of the studio earlier than a devoted paragraph feedback on its acquisition by Embracer Group, which within the final yr has additionally shut down builders Free Radical Design, Onoma, and Volition Games amid lay-offs affecting greater than 1,000 staff.
“In 2017, Pieces Interactive have been acquired by Embracer Group after working with the enlargement for Titan Quest, Titan Quest: Ragnarök and third enlargement for Titan Quest, Titan Quest: Atlantis,” the put up mentioned. “Our final launch was the reimagining of Alone within the Dark.”
The survival horror recreation, which launched in March 2024 to middling opinions, endured a “softer than anticipated efficiency” and “carried out under administration expectations” in response to a press release from Embracer made after it reportedly made a round of layoffs at Pieces Interactive.
Pieces Interactive joins an rising checklist of online game studio closures and layoffs which have plagued the trade for the previous two years. Embracer has brought on many of those, having reduce 1000’s of employees for the reason that collapse of a $2 billion deal in 2023.
It additionally bought the likes of Borderlands developer Gearbox Software and Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic remake studio Saber Interactive forward of saying a cut up into three separate firms.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll discuss The Witcher all day.
