After the current information of 9 Lives Interactive shutting down Nyan Heroes, First Mild Video games has now introduced through X that it’s discontinuing growth of cellular battle royale Blast Royale.
Initially deployed on Polygon, in early 2024 Blast Royale was amongst a collection of video games introduced to place its hope into migrating to Immutable zkEVM. One other problem the developer confronted was web3 resistance from cellular app shops, one thing co-CEO Anil Das-Gupta spoke brazenly about in a earlier interview with BlockchainGamer.
With that in thoughts, the studio has now made a last resolution to sundown the cellular sport. “After exploring each path and chance, we’ve made the robust resolution to discontinue growth of Blast Royale. The sport will formally shut on thirtieth June 2025.”
The announcement goes on to state that “this isn’t (technically) the tip”, explaining that the sport might be totally open supply from 1st June, that means anybody who desires to may pay money for the code and “take the sport in new instructions”.
One other studio saying the same destiny in a brief time-span is Singapore-based Tatsu Works which is sunsetting its RPG life sim Tatsumeeko: Lumina Fates. Saying its transfer to Ronin in September 2024, Tatsumeeko initially sprung from Tatusu.GG, which launched to quite a few Discord communities in 2016.
By closing down Tatsumeeko: Lumina Fates, Tatsu Works says it could possibly return to its early roots of constructing community-driven video games. Certainly, it’s already began engaged on its new title Venture: Wander, which might be “built-in immediately into digital third-places” versus “directing gamers to exterior shoppers or apps”.
