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Hollowpoint Development Ceases Due To Terminated Publisher Agreement With Paradox
The co-op action game Hollowpoint, from Crackdown 2 developer Ruffian Games, has an uncertain future due to a collapsed publishing deal with Paradox. Paradox told GameWatcher that the publishing deal was "amicably terminated" and gave the following statement (which we received as well upon inquiry):
After recent ongoing discussions between the two companies, it became apparent to both parties that the creative vision for the project was diverging and so the decision was ultimately taken to cease our co-operation in order to serve the long-term interests of the game. We would like to thank Ruffian Games for all their hard work and wish them the best of luck in their future endeavours. Paradox will be re-evaluating the creative direction of ‘Hollowpoint’ internally before making any final decisions.
Ruffian Games gave its own additional comments to Eurogamer, revealing that development ended as early as summer 2015:
We ceased working with Paradox on Hollowpoint in Summer 2015 and we wish them well for the future. Since then we've continued to work on multiple projects and we released Fragmental on Steam Early Access just last week. We are looking forward to supporting Fragmental with regular feature and content updates towards a launch version later this year.
Hollowpoint was expected for PC and PS4 and was originally announced at Gamescom 2014.
[Source: Eurogamer]
Our Take
It looks like Hollowpoint probably won't be seeing the light of day, but we didn't know a whole lot about the game to begin with. It's not looking good if development ceased as far back as summer, but it doesn't seem like there was much buzz or excitement for the title to begin with, considering there hasn't been much footage or news outside of the Gamescom announcement trailer.
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