Though the free-to-play multiplayer brawler Knockout Metropolis shut down final June, developer Velan Studios continues to be inquisitive about revisiting this new IP at some point.
In an official replace about its “large week” the place it introduced a brand new multiplayer shooter Midnight Homicide Membership and the VR title Bounce Arcade, it included a short message for Knockout Metropolis followers, mentioning how it will “love” to return to this specific world when the “time is true”:
“As an indie studio, we love our skill to lean into concepts that excite us, and relaxation assured we love KO Metropolis as a lot as you do and wish to deliver it again, *simply not but*. We spent over 4 years crafting Knockout Metropolis the primary time round, and we don’t wish to rush the method for the subsequent recreation in that universe. We love that world and may’t think about not going again to it sooner or later, when the time is true.”
When Velan introduced final February it was shutting down the sport, it talked about the way it was unable to “entice and retain” sufficient gamers to make it sustainable, regardless that it had over 12 million folks strive it out.
This newest replace about Knockout Metropolis follows studies of layoffs on the identical studio earlier this yr in March after a “main challenge” was axed by one among its exterior companions, ensuing inside a reorganisation of the staff. The identical staff beforehand labored with Nintendo on Mario Kart Reside: House Circuit.
