US EditionNetEase Racks up Its Third Studio Casualty in One Week, Kneecapping Dev Working on a Warhammer MMO: 'Devastated Doesn't Even Begin to Cover It'
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Jackalyptic Games and its Warhammer MMO are no more as NetEase pulls funding from the studio
The Warhammer IP curse has claimed another MMORPG skull for its skull throne, apparently: Jackalyptic Games, the Jack Emmert-led and NetEase-owned studio that had been working on a Warhammer 40K MMO as far back as 2023 is now effectively shuttered after NetEase has pulled its funding. “I’m here to share a note that after nearly […]
The Warhammer MMO Is Also Canceled As NetEase Shuts Down Jackalyptic Games, Too
Yet another MMO bites the dust as the Warhammer project in the works at Jackalyptic Games has been canceled following the studio's shutdown. The news comes directly from founder Jack Emmert, an MMO veteran who was behind City of Heroes, Champions Online, and Star Trek Online. Later, he managed DC Universe Online while at Daybreak. When the DC Universe Online team was spun off as Dimensional Ink Games in early 2020, Emmert began working on an una…
Like Project Ghost, the new Warhammer MMORPG from Jackalyptic Games has become a victim of NetEase's austerity rate. The number of hopeful MMO projects of the future is shrinking. What is the status of the Warhammer MMORPG? In February 2025, we had already reported that the Chinese publisher NetEase wanted to reduce international investment in the course of a austerity rate. Even then, there were indications that the large PvE MMORPG from Warham…
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