Earlier this week Bungie revealed it would be laying off 220 employees, moving another 155 into roles within SIE and spinning off another 75 into a new studio under PlayStation Studios.The mass layoffs and restructuring were a shock to the games industry, and in the days since different reports have appeared attempting to parse through all the changes that chief executive Pete Parsons didn’t exactly outline in his blog post announcing the layoff.Changes like the cancellation of Project Payback, which according to a report from Bloomberg was a spin-off game from the Destiny franchise rather than a full on sequel to Destiny 2 as was previously believed.In fact according to the report this game was said to be a third-person adventure and take more inspiration from games like Genshin Impact and Warframe. Though now of course we’ll never truly know what Project Payback was meant to be.Another report from Jeff Grubb claims that two Bungie veterans, Luke Smith and Mark Noseworthy who were working on Project Payback left once the title was cancelled.Source – [Bloomberg]
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