2025 has already seen a surprising 17 video game cancellations, reminding us that runaway budgets, shifting corporate priorities and creative clashes can derail even the most hyped projects. From Tencent’s Splash Damage quietly shelving the Transformers: Reactivate online action game to Sony axing two unannounced live-service titles at Bend and Bluepoint, publishers are taking big swings at streamlining their plans.
Among the high-profile casualties: Celeste devs Extremely OK Games pulled the plug on Earthblade after an internal IP spat; Football Manager 25 was scrapped for failing to meet Sports Interactive’s quality bar; Warner Bros. canned Monolith’s ambitious Wonder Woman game amid restructuring; Respawn quietly killed an in-house multiplayer FPS; EA cut a new Titanfall; and Square Enix nixed the GPS-style Kingdom Hearts Missing-Link when it proved too tricky to support long-term.
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