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Sega's Super Game: 100 Billion Yen Gone to Waste
In 2021, Sega announced a massive project called "Super Game": hundreds of millions of euros invested in live-service games designed to generate huge recurring revenue. Five years later, the project is dead. The reason? The same one that sank dozens of similar ambitions across the industry. Sega ultimately learned lessons others paid dearly for, but the question remains: at what cost did this realization come?
Project Ekur Canceled: Halo Studios Loses Secret Multiplayer Project
Halo Studios has shut down Project Ekur, a confidential multiplayer project whose existence was never officially confirmed. The cancellation is part of an ongoing wave of budget cuts reshaping Xbox Game Studios at its core. For the Halo franchise, it's another wound during an already difficult rebuilding period, and questions about the license's multiplayer future have taken on new urgency.
Hasbro Cancels Giant Skull's D&D Game — Stig Asmussen Left in the Lurch
Less than a year after touting their collaboration as a major turning point for both companies, Hasbro has pulled the plug on the Dungeons & Dragons game being developed by Giant Skull, the studio founded by Stig Asmussen. The veteran director, known for Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and God of War III, is back to square one. A brutal cancellation that raises serious questions about Hasbro's gaming strategy.