David Braben Denies Outsider Cancellation
EA [http://www.frontier.co.uk/games/outsider], although that eventually fell through as well.
That collapse led to reports that the game had finally been shut down for good but Braben has since issued statements to the contrary, acknowledging layoffs but insisting that the game itself is still alive and kicking. After initially telling Develop [http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/01/20/frontiers-the-outsider-has-been-cancelled/].
"There is still publisher interest in the project, and we haven't canceled it," he said. "The priority has been reduced, but we're still working on it."
Despite Braben's long career, he remains best known for Elite, a groundbreaking space trading sim released in 1984. In 2006, Braben told GameSpot [http://uk.gamespot.com/news/6162140.html] that work on Elite 4 would begin once The Outsider was complete. How it will be affected by this apparent breakdown - or whether it's one of the "unannounced projects" that made it happen - will hopefully be made clear soon.
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Elite creator David Braben says 17 people have been cut from Frontier Developments [http://www.frontier.co.uk/] as a result of "changing priorities" but insists that his long-in-development open-world spy game The Outsider hasn't been canceled.EA [http://www.frontier.co.uk/games/outsider], although that eventually fell through as well.
That collapse led to reports that the game had finally been shut down for good but Braben has since issued statements to the contrary, acknowledging layoffs but insisting that the game itself is still alive and kicking. After initially telling Develop [http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/01/20/frontiers-the-outsider-has-been-cancelled/].
"There is still publisher interest in the project, and we haven't canceled it," he said. "The priority has been reduced, but we're still working on it."
Despite Braben's long career, he remains best known for Elite, a groundbreaking space trading sim released in 1984. In 2006, Braben told GameSpot [http://uk.gamespot.com/news/6162140.html] that work on Elite 4 would begin once The Outsider was complete. How it will be affected by this apparent breakdown - or whether it's one of the "unannounced projects" that made it happen - will hopefully be made clear soon.
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