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• "On the verge" of production until the changes are made.

• Made mostly by the same team as the Fallout TV show

• Casting details are a young Colin Farrell-type male (30-39) with open ethnicity (Male Shephard probably), a female co-lead alien character requiring prosthetics (34-39); a female human providing a parallel narrative from Earth; a Doug Jones-type male villain (40-60); and a male wrestler-type soldier (30-49)

Source: https://www.eurogamer.net/mass-effect-tv-show-ordered-to-rewrite-scripts-and-make-them-more-appealing-to-non-gamers

• Yesterday’s layoffs were due to the cancellation of Wildlands, a game in development since early 2019
• Cycled through four different game engines and budget went beyond 9 figures
• Footage provided showed an open-world third person action game with a protagonist called River, who is part of a teenager group called Spiritbounds
• Gameplay elements included warding off bad spirits and riding mythical creatures to traverse the map
• Looked extremely similar to the canceled survival game WiLD by Wild Sheet Studios
• Wildlands was almost complete, passing key milestones and currently in debugging phase with a release planned for this year

Source: https://insider-gaming.com/eidos-montreal-wildlands-cancellation

• Information comes from reputable tech reporter, Alex Heath who spoke about it on Matthew Belloni’s podcast, The Town
• Said he knows "for a fact" that senior executives at Disney want to buy Epic Games and are waiting for the right moment while other executives at Disney believe it would be a bad idea.
• Disney looking for growth driver in the gaming spaces according to former execs

Source (Epic discussion starts at 15:55): https://youtu.be/K5yRAF5MWf4?si=qiinnuqg2RvRxzZ4