Disney has confirmed to Kotaku that the upcoming action-RPG game Pirates of the Caribbean: Armada of the Damned, has been cancelled and that several employees (possibly up to 100) at the fantastic developer (Propaganda Games), which is also producing the upcoming Tron game, have been laid-off as of today. The very sad but official statement is below:
“Disney Interactive Studios confirms the cancellation of the Pirates of the Caribbean: Armada of the Damned video game which was scheduled to be released in 2011,” Angela Emery, Disney Interactive Studios’ vice president of communication told Kotaku today. “As a result of this decision, Disney Interactive Studios completed a restructuring of Propaganda Games, its Vancouver, BC internal studio, affecting one of the studio’s two development teams. The studio is still in active production of Tron: Evolution, the video game, which will be released on December 7, 2010 with additional DLC (downloadable content) support following the game’s release.”
This comes as a real disappointment to the PlanetXbox360.com editorial staff as we have seen the game a ocuple of times and each time came away very impressed; it looked to be one fantastic pirate game and carried the Pirates of the Caribbean movie license well. Tron will definitely be hitting store-shelves later this year, so at least both games didn't get the axe (maybe they got the pink-slips backwards, Pirates looked much-better than Tron last time we saw them both). We would like to extend our best-wishes to all who lost their employment in this move today.
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