So yeah, I guess Mirror's Edge 2 isn't happening anymore. At least for now. Here's a copy of the news article from Eurogamer: 
 

Development of Mirror's Edge 2 has been "stopped" by EA.

A team at DICE showed EA a prototype that was "declined", according to a Eurogamer Sweden translation of a Press 2 Play TV report.

"Patrick [Soderlund - EA driving and shooting game boss] acknowledges that Mirror's Edge didn't match up to their expectations regarding sales, and that has stopped the sequel that has been in development," declared the report, published originally in December.

"EA was shown a prototype, but declined with askance. The project has been stopped - involved parties at DICE are working on something else now. Patrick himself seems to have Mirror's Edge near his heart, but they are not in the business of charity."

Presumably the extra development is going into Battlefield 3 - EA's well publicised attempt at wrestling shooter supremacy from the Call of Duty series.

Patrick Soderlund confirmed last summer that "a small team" at DICE was 'on' a new Mirror's Edge game. Eurogamer pressed him on that point last November.

"Mirror's Edge is an IP that's close to my heart and EA's as well. It was a bold move from us. I'm proud we made it. It obviously didn't reach the commercial success we wanted, even though it wasn't bad at all," he said.

"I still think as a company we're going to talk about it when we're going to talk about it. What I can say is, we haven't buried it. We're absolutely continuing to support Mirror's Edge as an IP. When we're ready to talk about it, we'll talk about it."

EA Games boss Frank Gibeau went on record a few weeks later to say that the execution of Mirror's Edge "fell short". "There were issues with the learning curve, the difficulty, the narrative, and then there was no multiplayer either," he said.

Mirror's Edge, a Parkour-inspired first-person action game, was released late 2009 on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360. Despite an 8/10 recommendation from Eurogamer, the eye-catching title failed to, well, catch punters' eyes - entering the UK all-formats chart at 20.

Eurogamer has requested comment from EA.

   

Aw man, this makes me sad, problems and all, Mirror's Edge is one of my favorite games this generation I absolutely love the style, the music, art design, nearly everything about it actually. Are there any change another publisher could pick it up? Or are DICE owned by EA?

Well you know...If DICE had put the game through proper QA then a lot of issues would have been resolved. Mirror's Edge was a nice refreshing new IP that had charm but was plagued with some really odd design choices. As far as I'm concern EA is in the right.  
 
And again EA seems to think that MP=Longevity. That's ok Dead Space 2 is going to teach them a harsh lesson why MP  doesn't need to be in every freaking game. 

I bet EA would give the game a go ahead if the plan was to put perks and killstreaks in it.

I know everyone likes to shit on EA's vision of every game having multiplayer (and rightfully so, usually), but I think Mirror's Edge multiplayer would actually be pretty awesome. Sure, you'd probably have some shitty deathmatch mode or something tacked on, but imagine a cops and robbers style mode, or even a terrorist hunt style mode.

It's pretty unfortunate, but ultimately it does come down to a company's bottom line when you want to go on and make a sequel.  Mirror's Edge had a lot of interesting things going on in that game and, even though it's not dead, it seems like were never going to know where the potential of that series could go.  It's just sort of annoying that new styles of games aren't allowed to grow when they don't earn enough money the first time around.  Oh well, I'm hopeful that the game eventually gets a sequel or at least another company does the first-person parkour thing.

I wonder how many years EA will carry on with thinking a game is pointless without mp. Mirrors Edge showed that  parkour and a feeling of movement could work in a FPS. Even if a second game doesn't get made I'm glad that other devs have seen this and our implementing it in to their games.

" Well you know...If DICE had put the game through proper QA then a lot of issues would have been resolved. Mirror's Edge was a nice refreshing new IP that had charm but was plagued with some really odd design choices. As far as I'm concern EA is in the right.   And again EA seems to think that MP=Longevity. That's ok Dead Space 2 is going to teach them a harsh lesson why MP  doesn't need to be in every freaking game.  "

MIrror's Edge definitely wasn't a game for me, but it is still sad to see it go. At least the resources spent in this are going to Battlefield 3.

I'm always torn when Mirror's Edge 2 is brought up.
On one hand it was pretty good, and pretty original.
But at the same time, it wasn't that good and I'm not convinced a sequel would be that much better.
 
It reminds me of Crackdown, in that I think we needed an Infamous more than we needed a Crackdown 2 (if you catch my drift).

Yeah, a multiplayer mode where you have to "race" eachother actually sounds like a lot of fun for this game.

" @Mordukai said:

" Well you know...If DICE had put the game through proper QA then a lot of issues would have been resolved. Mirror's Edge was a nice refreshing new IP that had charm but was plagued with some really odd design choices. As far as I'm concern EA is in the right.   And again EA seems to think that MP=Longevity. That's ok Dead Space 2 is going to teach them a harsh lesson why MP  doesn't need to be in every freaking game.  "

Why wouldn't they? Battlefield 2 was one of their best selling games and people are still playing it. "

The current Dice QA team was the one that worked on BC2:Vietnam QA, so if it's down to them it's no surprise.
 
And besides, it's all about taking down Call of Duty now.

EA will only lke it if you can turn it into an annual franchise. Also, DLC.

Bummer. I like Mirror's Edge a lot, and I think a sequel could do awesome things. I think multiplayer would be interesting, either timed trials or some kind of co-op mode (which could be infuriatingly hard but still fun), but I can see how it wouldn't be a priority kind of game. I loved the narrative style and the visuals stand up pretty well even though it's several years old at this point. I'd really love to see something in the future, even if it's way far down the road.

Guess I will play through ME another five times then. As for the odd design choices, two come to mind: The jarring cutscenes and the weapons. I made it a point to play through this game not shooting dudes, because I didn't feel the tacked-on gunplay . 
 
I was looking forward to ME2 being released some day with great artstyle and another kickass soundtrack by Magnus Birgersson. Bummer.

I liked MIrror's Edge a lot as it was, so I would definitely be interested in a sequel developed from the point of view that there were serious issues that need to be addressed, because THAT game would be amazing.

good. the first game is rubbish.

Mirror's Edge had a lot of cool ideas going for it. It could have done well with a sequel.

Hey DICE, have fun attempting to key into the COD demographic with more watered down versions of Battlefield games year to year.

Mirror's Edge is still one of my favorite games to go back to.  I was really looking forward to seeing what they were going to do with the sequel.  Today is a sad day.

*looks up at sky*   "NNnnnoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!"
 
I'm extremely disappointed about this and seriously, shut up about multiplayer.  You're chucking away so many innovative game ideas if you then force multiplayer on a world/concept where it just doesn't fit or is just ultimately pretty pointless or arbitrary if you create it.

 "There were issues with the learning curve, the difficulty, the narrative, and then there was no multiplayer either,"   
upsets me so much that guys like this are the ones who make the big calls. if this is true and not some hokey "ooh let's reel them in" publicity stunt, then wave goodbye to the most original ip to have come along in the last ten years.

I'm not sure I properly understand, from what I read it sounds as though they just put Mirror's Edge 2 on hold. If that's the case then I'll just have to be patient.

i loved the first game, 2015 ill be playing the second, my guess

This is to bad.  I liked the first game despite the fact that it wasn't that good of a game.  I thought there was a lot of potential with this idea and the mechanics they developed.  They just needed to fine tune what was good and either entirely fix or remove what was bad (ex; the fighting).  At least EA publish the first game.  They took a chance and that's more then what a lot of publishers would do.  Remember, Mirror's Edge came out right around the time Dead Space did.  Both were pretty big chances from EA's perspective.  That's cool EA did that.  I hope they keep doing it.  I was hoping they would do it with Mirror's Edge 2 but I understand why they didn't. 

Bummer, a sequel could have done a lot for that franchise. I mean, simply getting rid of the combat could have made that game much much better, and using better animated cutscenes would have helped too. The actual parkour-style gameplay parts of the game were fantastic, it was all the other crap that was wrapped around it that was a problem. 
 
Also, citing that the problem is difficulty and lack of MP is stupid.

Dear EA, I don't want multiplayer in all my games. If you put all that effort into the single player instead of dividing it between the two you can create an engaging and rewarding experience people will still play over and over. Look at Vanquish for example. Or, in your own company, Mass Effect or Dragon Age. I don't see anyone still playing Bioshock 2 just because you dumped a multiplayer mode into it.

"  I don't see anyone still playing Bioshock 2 just because you dumped a multiplayer mode into it. "

My heart sank a little when I read this. I absolutely loved the first game.
 
I can't help but question EA's judgement. I mean....they green-lit an Army of Two sequel. Surely they can afford to put Mirror's Edge out there.

" I bet EA would give the game a go ahead if the plan was to put perks and killstreaks in it. "

" Aw man, this makes me sad, problems and all, Mirror's Edge is one of my favorite games this generation I absolutely love the style, the music, art design, nearly everything about it actually. Are there any change another publisher could pick it up? Or are DICE owned by EA? "

Fuck. 
 
Oh well, look on the bright side, at least we will prolly be getting a new FPS with an online component which features some sort of leveling system. We haven't had one of them in a while. :-/ 

Damn thats depressing, the 1st one was probably my game of the year for 2008!

Meh.

FUCK. I really wanted this sequel. Goddammit.

EA really love putting MP into everything, I dont really see why they wouldnt make a new one, of course a new concept of gaming isnt going to top charts in a world currently ruled by CoD and Halo. 
 
Lets just hope Battlefield 3 lives up to the hype because it seems that 100% of dice are now on it after cancelling every other game they were on.

well that sucks. it was a good game i played a little bit of it. i thought it was different to play.  
 
i don't know about battlefield 3. it might be good but it not. they might put something in there that might change the game to a different game. when battlefield2  that came out on the consoles, it was totally different compared to the one on PC. 
 
EA is just thinks that everygame needs multiplayer in it. games don't really need multiplayer to be good. there are some awesome single player games that didn't have multiplayer.

SON OF A-- 
 
i want a second mirror's edge :(

" EA will only lke it if you can turn it into an annual franchise. "

Mirror's Edge is a great game, people just didn't know how to play it and then started calling it bad :x 
 
I'd love to see a sequel.

I really liked Mirrors Edge, I got it in the steam sale last xmas and it was the most pleasant of surprises. It's a shame this has happened, but if it means they are putting more people on BF3 then I don't mind. 

The first game was alright, but I don't think it did well enough for them to justify a sequel.  Dead Space was lucky enough to get one imo, let alone Mirror's Edge.

" Mirror's Edge is a great game, people just didn't know how to play it and then started calling it bad :x  I'd love to see a sequel. "