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Celeste studio cancels "2D explor-action game" Earthblade nearly four years after its announcement

Extremely OK Games - the studio behind beloved 2018 platformer Celeste - has announced the cancellation of its "2D expl…

Extremely OK Games - the studio behind beloved 2018 platformer Celeste- has announced the cancellation of its "2D explor-action" project Earthblade, calling the news a "huge, heartbreaking, and yet relieving failure". A full reveal arrived a year and a half later, offering an early glimpse of a side-scrolling platformer - blending elements of combat and exploration - that would see an "enigmatic child of Fate returning at long last to Earth". Thorson says the issue has now been resolved following a "very difficult and heartbreaking process", but noted the outcome resulted in Medeiros' departure from the Earthblade project after "both parties...agreed in the end that we should go our separate way".

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