Disney Interactive Studios confirmed the cancellation yesterday afternoon following a rumor report from Kotaku stating that the game was axed and people lost their jobs. Here's the boilerplate statement from DIS, which mentions that the publisher has "completed a restructuring of Propaganda Games" that has affected "one of the studio's two development teams."
Disney Interactive Studios confirms the cancellation of the Pirates of the Caribbean: Armada of the Damned video game which was scheduled to be released in 2011. As a result of this decision, Disney Interactive Studios completed a restructuring of Propaganda Games, its Vancouver, BC internal studio, affecting one of the studio's two development teams.
The studio is still in active production of Tron: Evolution, the video game, which will be released on December 7, 2010 with additional DLC (downloadable content) support following the game's release.
== TEASER ==Propaganda Games, as noted in the above, will continue developing Tron: Evolution: The Video Game. Tron is still set to be released later in December and the lone team at the studio will continue to support the movie tie-in post-release with DLC.
Armada of the Damned apparently looked good when Jeff saw it briefly earlier this summer, and critics seem to agree that it had potential despite being one of those dreaded movie games. You can read Jeff's take on it here if you'd like, though, you might leave it feeling a bit blue considering what has happened.
Why? I had only heard good things from this. This really suck Not only because a promising game got cancelled but a seemingly good deceloper has to let people go.
Odd. I would have thought even a sub-par POTC game would have at least broken even. I have to assume it was either very over budget or behind schedule.
When I read about this on Blues News a few days ago it made me sad. After hearing them talk about it on the bomb cast it sounded like it was going to be an awesome game.
Damn, so they decided to cancel on of the few actually decent sounding movie tie-ins. You'd think anything with the Pirates name on it would sell like mad, odd.
That's actually kinda a shame. I couldn't care less about the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' bit of the game but overall, from what little I saw, it looked promising. I was looking forward to seeing more about it.
Feel sorry for people at Propaganda Games as it looked to be an interesting title. Pirate rpg sounds great, the art was really strong and a strong IP. Seams like a stupid move by Disney.
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