{"id":116494,"date":"2011-01-20T16:38:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T16:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcvuk.com\/the-outsider-not-cancelled\/"},"modified":"2011-01-20T16:38:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T16:38:00","slug":"the-outsider-not-cancelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcvuk.com\/development-news\/the-outsider-not-cancelled\/","title":{"rendered":"The Outsider ‘not cancelled’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cambridge studio Frontier Developments has not cancelled production on The Outsider, its founder David Braben has told Develop.<\/p>\n

However, 17 workers at the group have been made redundant as Frontier rethinks its approach developing the game.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is still publisher interest in the project, and we haven\u2019t cancelled it,\u201d Braben told Develop.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe priority has been reduced, but we\u2019re still working on it,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

\u201cA publisher has not cancelled the project\u201d, he later said when asked for clarification.<\/p>\n

The Outsider has been in production for six years.<\/p>\n

Earlier Braben told games site Rock Paper Shotgun<\/a> that the studio has "had to change priorities because of requirements on other unannounced projects".<\/p>\n

He added: "Some people have been moved, and we are very sad to have made some people redundant.\u201d<\/p>\n

Making staff redundant is \u201ca hateful thing to do\u201d Braben told Develop. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s gutting, but one of those things you are forced to do sometimes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Following redundancies, Frontier has over 210 staff at its studio, Braben said.<\/p>\n

Announced in 2005, The Outsider was pitched as an action game with a political narrative. Speculation that the game has been cancelled has circulated for a number of years, not least because of the very few times the game had been demonstrated to the press.<\/p>\n

The project was initially self-funded by Frontier Developments, and soon after signed to Codemasters. The Rock Paper Shotgun report said Codemasters dropped the deal, though it is suggested by Braben\u2019s claim that another, unknown company has signed the project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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