Wyrdsong is cutting out its open

The CEO of Something Wicked Games has indicated in an interview with PC Gamer that the debut of his studio, the RPG Wyrdsong, will reduce its scale due to lack of funding. Read more

Revealed at Gamescom's Opening Night Live, Wyrdsong looked like a new and interesting RPG fantasy with a unique world and visual effects. Coming from veterans of Bethesda's RPGs, he excited fans of the genre, and got NetEase to fund developer Something Wicked Games. Since then, however, luck has turned to a worse turn, as PCGamer's co-founder of Something Wicked, Jeff Gardner, has declared. Dismissals have affected the studio, turning his former…

Wyrdsong is cutting out its open

Revealed at Gamescom Opening Night Live, Wyrdsong looked like an interesting new fantasy RPG with a unique world and visuals. Coming from veterans of Bethesda RPGs, it had fans of the genre excited, and managed to score some funding from NetEase for developer Something Wicked Games. Since then, however, fortunes have taken a turn for the worse, as Something Wicked co-founder Jeff Gardiner told PCGamer. Layoffs have hit the studio, turning its f…

Former developers of Bethesda and Obsidian wanted to lean Wyrdsong on the open game worlds of Skyrim and Fallout. Now the role-playing game becomes more like Avowed.

NewsGaming.net Wyrdsong: The studio composed of former Bethesda and BioWare abandons the idea of an open world RPG There are no more young studios composed of former industry veterans who have had the ambition to embark on big projects in the open world before reality catches them up. Often, the experience is not enough and these studios start without a solid structure, hoping to be able to build it with new investments. The studio Something Wic…

Fallout and Obsidian veterans ditch open-world game plans as team shrinks to a "skeleton crew"

Wyrdsong, the next game from a team of former Bethesda and Obsidian RPG veterans, is struggling on with a "skeleton crew" after further departures from its team and a rescoping of the game.