Avatar Game Follows Avatar 2's Footsteps In The Worst Way
Massive Entertainment is in the midst of developing Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, and it may be suffering the same fate as the perennially delayed Avatar 2. James Cameron's 2009 science fiction epic is slated to eventually receive four sequels, but has gone more than a decade without a proper follow-up, since Avatar 2's release keeps getting pushed back. Frontiers of Pandora piqued interest when its first trailer was shown at E3 2021, but without a concrete release date, a recent change of management and past development issues may have put it in the same sort of purgatory as its film counterpart.
Avatar 2 isn't so much having production troubles, but is supposedly too ambitious to have come any sooner than its current December 16, 2022 release date. The game from Massive Entertainment, published by Ubisoft has similar ambitions. Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is a new story in Cameron's fictional setting, and will use new features of Ubisoft's Snowdrop Engine, though neither of these seem to be responsible for any potential delay. Neither Ubisoft nor Massive have mentioned a change in release plans for Frontiers of Pandora, but a key figure in the development team is on the cusp of stepping away from the project permanently.
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Right around the time Frontiers of Pandora was announced, Massive's managing director David Polfeldt embarked on a six-month sabbatical, and has just recently made this move more concrete by submitting his resignation sometime at the beginning of 2022, according to Nathan Brown, author of Hit Points and former editor at Edge. Polfeldt was apparently already set to move on to other projects after his sabbatical, so
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