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Ex-WoW Designer's MMO Studio Closing After Just 2 Years

Summary by Polygon
Publisher NetEase is making more cuts to its internal development teams, including shutting Fantastic Pixel Castle, according to studio head and game director Greg Street. Fantastic Pixel Castle was founded in 2023 and led by Street, an influential designer on both World of Warcraft at Blizzard and League of Legends at Riot Games.

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NetEase is going to close Fantastic Pixel Castle just two years after the studio opened for the first time. Fantastic Pixel Castle will definitely close on November 17, 2025, and it looks like all the staff will go to the streets. According to the studio director, Greg Street, on LinkedIn (via Insider Gaming), although there is still the possibility of getting funding for the studio game and they would love to do it, the priority right now is to…

The new game directed by Greg Street - former World of Warcraft designer- at NetEase to have been cancelled, as his studio would currently be closed.

Fantastic Pixel Castle, Greg Street's studio is scheduled to close this month. Street was head of World of Warcraft's system development, League of Legend's gameplay director, and executive producer of the mysterious Riot Games MMO. But even this remarkable resume doesn't protect the developer from the brutal video game market. His indie studio closes its doors on November 17th, as Street couldn't find a publisher for his fantasy MMO. Read more

With the MMORPG project Ghost, the former WoW developer Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street wanted to inspire exactly where other online role-playing games fail in his opinion. Now the veteran has turned to the community with a Job's message. What announces Greg Street? After the Chinese company NetEase had jumped off as a sponsor, the team of Project Ghost failed to raise an alternative source of funding. On leftin.com Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street therefo…

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Gamespot broke the news in United States on Monday, November 3, 2025.
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