News came down from Disney Interactive today that the toy-game line Disney Inifinity is coming to an end. The game will stop recieving updates after June.
Disney is also shutting down Avalance Software, the studio responsible for Disney Infinity. Disney is effectively no longer a game publisher, Disney would incur a $147 million charge as a result of the shutdown of Disney Infinity Studio. With now 300 employess out of work. While there will be two new Disney Infinity releases yet to come, however. Later this month we will see Alice Through The Looking Glass with a set from Finding Dory set to follow.
Our goal for Disney Infinity was to bring the best of Disney storytelling to life in homes around the world and with your support, we accomplished that...We hope you had as much fun playing the game as we have making it.
Disney has revealed that they will continue to license out their properties to other studios but will no longer continue to make console games in house.
Its sad news and it comes just two months after revealing that there would be no new edition of Disney Infinity this year, as there had been every year since its launch in 2013.
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