Game releases outside Japan no longer particular
by Liam Croft 3 hours earlier
GamesIndustry.biz reports that Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom developer Level-5 has reduced its North American existence to a skeleton crew. According to sources close to the site and acquainted with the situation, both Level-5 International America and Level-5 Abby started laying off the majority of its staff partway through 2019 as operations wound down. This has actually called into concern the release of the studios titles outside of Japan, with one source mentioning that “there were currently no concrete strategies for any more Level-5 games” to come to other areas.
In the case of Level-5 Abby, nevertheless, workers were stated to be “offered every indication” that the designer would eventually be shuttered. It is not yet understood what this indicates for the third mainline Ni no Kuni title currently in development and its release in United States and European areas.
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[source gamesindustry.biz]
