Edition Bloomberg citing its own sources, reports that Electronic Arts canceled a project codenamed Gaia, which has been in development for almost 6 years.
The game was first mentioned back in 2015, but no official announcement has been made. Also, a few seconds of Gaia footage could be seen during last year’s EA Play… The project has been described as extremely ambitious and innovative.
Gaia was supposed to be an open-world action adventure like Assassin’s Creed and Watch dogs… To work on the game, EA hired the producer of these episodes, Jade Raymond, who founded a new studio in 2015. EA Motive…
After the failure Mass effect andromeda the studio survived the merger with the division BioWare Montreal, and after the release Star Wars Battlefront IIBy early 2018, Gaia’s team had absorbed its creative leaders, resulting in cultural clashes.
As a result, the project managers went to Ubisoftand the development of Gaia was restarted. Raymond left EA in the fall of 2018.
Gaia’s cancellation has become part of EA’s internal processes, through which the company allocates resources and evaluates which projects should continue. Previously, these processes led to the cancellation of the restart Anthem…
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