Reflector Entertainment has announced the cancellation of an in-development project and another round of layoffs following the "failure" of its debut game, Unknown 9: Awakening. Studio CEO Herve Hoerdt said he halted work in the project, which was in the "conceptualization phase," as continuing development "would not have been sustainable for the future of the studio."
"This decision correlates directly with the failure of the studio's ambitious and courageous first project [Unknown 9: Awakening], a new IP with a rich transmedia universe," Hoerdt wrote in a message posted to LinkedIn. "The performance of the release didn't come near the company expectations, after numerous timeline adjustments and investments, both financially and other, and didn't warrant any further exploration in the universe.
