Luminous says it was a 'dream come true' to work on Forspoken, but the studio's set to go away for good.
Luminous Productions, the team behind this year's powerfully middling Forspoken, is going quietly into that good night. In a tweet posted yesterday, the studio announced that,"Beginning on May 1," it would"join Square Enix to deliver new, innovative gaming experiences across the globe". In other words, it's being folded into its parent company and ceasing to exist as a separate entity.
For obvious reasons, Luminous tries to present this as a positive move for the company, but there's a trace of something elegiac in its released statement. When Luminous was established, the announcement reads,"[Its] vision was to make AAA games that fused technology and artistry to deliver completely new play experiences. Having the chance to do just that has been a dream come true".
Square Enix said the decision was about"further [bolstering] the competitive prowess of the Group’s development studios" in its, but it's hard not to see this as driven by the muted response to Forspoken, which drew a large
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