Uh oh, Bulletstorm studio and Take-Two have an unexpected breakup
pcgamer.comPeople Can Fly began as a Polish studio, still best-known for the bombastic FPS Bulletstorm, before going through various investments and expansions across the 2010s, including being owned by Epic Games for a short time. It has ballooned to the extent it now employs 550 people with offices in Warsaw, Rzeszow, Lodz, Krakow, Newcastle, New York, Chicago, Montreal, and Toronto.
Strange thing is that it's still known for Bulletstorm, which first released in 2011. That's because it spent most of the subsequent years co-developing, doing Gears of War: Judgement and working on Fortnite with Epic, before 2021 saw the release of Outriders with publisher Square Enix. The live service looter-shooter didn't meet expectations, probably because it was a little dull next to the competition, and so eyes turn to the upcoming Project Dagger.
Which has just lost its publisher. People Can Fly has issued an oddly worded statement saying that it «expects that its co-operation with Take-Two Interactive will come to an end» and spinning Project Dagger being self-published as a positive.
People Can Fly says «it has received from Take-Two Interactive a letter of intent to terminate the development and publishing agreement by means of mutual understanding between the parties. This agreement pertains to Project Dagger, new action-adventure IP, that has been in development for the last two years.»
Project Dagger remains in development at People Can Fly's New York studio, and the statement goes on to say that Take-Two has not yet agreed settlement terms—under which People Can Fly may be liable to repay advance money—and has declined to exercise an option to acquire the rights to the game via a buy out.
«Consequently, People Can Fly has retained the
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