EA Closes Cliffhanger Games, Cancels Black Panther Game - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 June 2025 / 2,954 Views
Electronic Arts has shut down developer Cliffhanger Games and cancelled its third-person, single-player Black Panther game, according to a report from IGN.
Electronic Arts Entertainment president Laura Miele in an email sent to staff said the changes are being down to "sharpen our focus and put our creative energy behind the most significant growth opportunities."
Electronic Arts is also laying off employees on both its mobile and central teams. EA declined to comment on the number of people let go.
"These decisions are hard," said Miele. "They affect people we’ve worked with, learned from, and shared real moments with. We’re doing everything we can to support them — including finding opportunities within EA, where we’ve had success helping people land in new roles."
Miele stated EA will focus on a small handful of franchises going forward. This includes Battlefield, The Sims, Skate, and Apex Legends. EA plans to continue to invest in its Iron Man game at MotiVe and the third Star Wars: Jedi game. BioWare will continue to work on the next entry in the Mass Effect series.
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Wakanda Never
I fear for Codemasters
EA have already cut them back, no more WRC games and just yearly F1 by the looks of it.
Wakanda shit is this? So this game was separate from the Marvel game featuring Captain America and Black Panther in WWII. Shame. Could have been special.
Haha. Yeah, that 1943 Marvel game is being published by Skydance.
No Black Panther game with an updated nemesis system then.
A shame. The concept sounded fun.
Looks like a high up executive in EA “made the hard decision” with some trumped up reasoning. Dazzled by a power point promotion about how they can save money in the next fiscal year, they’d give this executive a promotion… for making the hard decision.
That's often the case with these corporate "just making the hard decisions" nonsense for destroying career paths (in EA's case, entire studios). They find a justification for it. The motivation is purely to put on a show so they can advance their career at the expense of others. This has always been the case with corporations that do not have any kind ethical framework against these sorts of actions, or proper union rep in their boards.
It's EA, so they probably just couldn't figure out how to monetize the hell out of the game with micro transaction in every menu screen.
I was already thinking, no way another Amy Hennig game was canceled, but it's another Black Panther game
I don't get it.
