Star Wars: Hunter Publisher Shutters Suthters Studio was founded by Diablo Creator Torchlight before it could announce its new game

Zynga officially closes Echtra Games, the development studio behind it Torch Light 3For four years since the acquisition, the company has been working on an unannounced cross-platform ARPG.

IGN can confirm that the San Francisco-based studio will be closed by the end of this month. Although we have no exact people affected, there are 61 people in LinkedIn List their current jobs in the studio.

Zynga provides the following statement as IGN:

Zynga made a difficult decision to stop operations at its Echtra Studio, ending future title development and reducing roles. The decision is part of a strategic readjustment of the company's resources and priorities. We will work closely with affected employees to be respected and considered as we navigate this difficult process.

Echtra Games was founded by Max Schaefer, one of the co-founders of Torchlight developer Runic Games, formerly co-founder of Blizzard North and co-creator of Diablo. After his co-founder also left the studio, Schaeff left Runes and founded Echtra in the perfect world of investors, thus working as a flashlight MMO. Over time, the game's vision changed, eventually becoming the boundary of the torch world and later becoming Torchlight 3. In 2021, Echtra Games is Acquired by Zyngaleave Torch 3 in the hands of the perfect world and start working”A new, yet-announced cross-platform RPG“With CSR Racing and Star Wars: Nature for Hunter Developers.”

Unfortunately, Echtra Games' RPG has never been announced or displayed. It is unclear why ECHTRA was shut down, although Zynga announced it would shut down three months after NaturalMotion-developed Star Wars: Hunter: Later in the Year, the decision itself announced just nine months after the game was released. It is worth noting that Zynga is a subsidiary of Grand Theft Auto Publisher Take-Two Interactive. Slowly remove and then Sold Earlier this year, its private sector published the tag. Also a publisher More than a year ago, about 5% of the employees and canceled multiple projects.

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