Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier has just published a new report detailing the collapse of Last Sentinel, the ambitious open world crime game backed by Tencent that was meant to go toe-to-toe with Grand Theft Auto. According to Schreier, the project has now effectively been shut down (although Tencent disputes this; more on that later) after six years of troubled development, with roughly 80 layoffs hitting the studio behind it this week. That studio was Lightspeed LA, which got founded in late 2019/early 2020 by Steve Martin, former head of Rockstar San Diego. Based in Irvine, California, the studio set out to […]
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