Thu, Oct 14, 2010 | 22:45 BST

Armada of the Damned canceled, lay-offs hit Propaganda

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Disney has canceled production of its action-RPG Pirates of the Caribbean: Armada of the Damned amid lay-offs at Propaganda Studios.

The news was confirmed to Kotaku, with Disney Interactive’s Angela Emery stating:

“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.

“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 with additional DLC support following the game’s release.”

According to sources close to Kotaku, as many as 100 people were let go this week. The remaining team from Pirates were shifted over to out on Tron.

Shame folks are losing their jobs, and it’s a shame because Armada of the Damned looked really cool, and we heard from folks who had looked at it that it was coming along nicely.

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#1

The_Deleted
14/10/10, 11:20 pm

Shame. This one looked like it could have gone one better than the films and actually have been good. Still, why should a one off pirate game take precedence when there are FPS’s needing shelf space.

#2

Crysis
14/10/10, 11:29 pm

Shame, this looked to be the first good Pirates of the Carribean game, but this honestly doesn’t surprise me.

#3

AHA-Lambda
14/10/10, 11:59 pm

what? this is surprising, it looked like it was well on and quite good

#4

Aimless
15/10/10, 12:00 am

That’s odd, I’d heard nothing but good things about it. I was looking forward to another Fable-ish game, so I’d be interested in hearing the reasoning behind the cancellation.

#5

Stephany Nunneley
15/10/10, 12:01 am

I was so on board with this game. The first PotC console game had potential, but missed the mark with all the damn bugs.

#6

SplatteredHouse
15/10/10, 12:12 am

Daaaaarn. :( I’ve not cared a bit about the Tron game, but I thought the Armada of Damned one had good potential.

#7

Xuchilbara
15/10/10, 1:45 am

After comparing user comments I can say that I am VERY happy I don’t go to Kotaku anymore… There is a much more respectable user base here and not just a bunch of lames trying to get shock laughs / comments, except for LOLShock…

Back on subject… I am sad to hear this game was scrapped! If anything I wish Tron would have been…

#8

LordCancer
15/10/10, 1:53 am

GOD DAMMIT WTF!

#9

frostquake
15/10/10, 2:45 am

I will add my “What a Shame” comment as well, everything I had seen, along with some great game play demo’s…this would have done well.

Since it is Disney I don’t think it will ever see the light of day again, too bad to! I could see some other Developer wanting to pick this up and finish it…Oh well, never say never!

#10

blackdreamhunk
15/10/10, 5:58 am

i wonder was going to be a rpg or rts?

#11

back_up
15/10/10, 7:26 am

it was looking like fable rip

#12

Hunam
15/10/10, 7:35 am

What the fuck, this looked great. Fuck.

#13

onlineatron
15/10/10, 8:27 am

Dead till the 2011 pirates movie?

I’d imagine Disney will use the framework from this to create the next tie in game.

Unfortunately they probably won’t build on it and the game will be bug ridden and no good.

#14

Blerk
15/10/10, 8:54 am

Oh, blimey. That’s not good – this actually looked like it had potential! :-|

#15

Golden
15/10/10, 4:24 pm

wow, I was looking forward to this. The early details seemed so promising. What a day for losses

#16

The_Deleted
15/10/10, 5:24 pm

Would have made more sense to keep at until the next PotC film and then released a decent tie in.
Disney seem to serious about game development and this would have gone some way to making the core market aware of it’s commitment to quality. Instead, we’ll get some half assed throw away load of crap, given a year to develop and released with the next shitty film.

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