After the runaway success of Celeste, fans had high hopes for the company’s new game Earthblade. Unfortunately, that game won’t be coming out anymore, as devs Maddy Thorson and Noel Berry have announced its cancelation. This is disappointing in so many levels, as a metroidvania game from the studio sounded perfect.
On the Extremely Okay Games website, it was announced that the highly-anticipated indie game was canceled as part of a “final update” blog. The blog states that this metroidvania was officially canned sometime in December. It seems that this was caused by a dispute about the rights to Celeste with founding member Pedro Medeiros.
Here is the official statement on Earthblade’s cancellation:
The news is pretty disappointing since Earthblade had a ton of potential. Ever since it was first shown off during The Game Awards, fans everywhere were hoping to get their hands on it. Add the overall success of Celeste and it’s easy to see why everyone is disappointed by this major announcement.
In other cancellation-related news, EA recently stopped their Origin launcher, reverting back to their own app. SEGA is also doing something less risky by announcing a membership that gives players cosmetics for logging into their service.
