Hyenas Has Been Cancelled

thegamer.com:

Sega has just announced that it has cancelled Hyenas, its hero-based multiplayer shooter that was set to launch later this year.

"In response to the lower profitability of the European region, we have reviewed the title portfolio of each development base in Europe and the resulting action will be to cancel 'Hyenas' and some unannounced titles under development," Sega wrote in its public structural reform letter. "Accordingly, we will implement a write-down of work-in-progress for titles under development."

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Hyenas just held a closed beta from August 31 to September 11, which in hindsight, was the last window for players to try it themselves. Earlier last month, there were also rumblings of problems behind the scenes. Sega said that Hyenas was a "challenging" game to develop and that it had been reviewing its business model and making adjustments.

Looking to the future, following these cancellations, Sega said, "We expect to record losses of approximately 14.3 billion yen for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, but there are no changes to the full-year consolidated operating results forecast for the fisical year ending March 31, 2024 at this time. In the consumer area, several new titles, including mainstay IPs, will be released from the third quarter onwards and the amusement machine sales area, where the prize category is performing well, and the animation and toy area are performing solidly."

Hyenas was only anounced in last June. Developed by Alien: Isolation's Creation Assembley, the idea was that you'd pick from a list of 'heroes' and then race the other team to rob more "pop-culture artifacts". It was set to launch sometime