A planned cooperative Dungeons & Dragons video game under development by Starbreeze has been cancelled. Starbreeze, the video game studio behind the Payday franchise of games, announced that they were cancelling Project Baxter, a planned D&D video game that had co-op gameplay and was planned as a “Games as a service” product. 44 employees (split between staff and contractors) were laid off as part of the cancellation. Starbreeze also announced that they were writing off SEK 255 million (or $27.2 million in US dollars) in development costs related to the game.
Project Baxter was one of several of several active D&D video games in development. Also in the works is an action-adventure game by Giant Skull, a survival game from Gameloft, and two games from in-house studios owned by Hasbro. Wizards of the Coast also recently announced plans to open a new video game studio in Montreal dedicated to developing new D&D video games.
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