Former Dead Cells lead designer Sébastien Benard is none too chuffed about publisher Motion Twin's decision to end deve…

Lots of drama happening behind the scenes

There’s a lot more context in the lead dev’s blog but the TL;DR is that a sister company working on Dead Cells updates had plans for updates and DLC for at least 2025, but they were abruptly cancelled to make room for Windblown, putting the company and community in disarray.

Former lead designer/lead dev is not happy.

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What’s worse is that it seems like Evil Empire is going to get cut off of the revenue from Dead Cells because Motion Twins owns the IP. EE has been working on the game since after the first DLC expansion (1.5 or 6 I can’t remember), and the majority of the content and expansions are done by them at this point, not Motion Twin.

I am interested to see what Evil Empire has in store, as they announced they are working with two long dormant IP, and they did just work with Konami on the Castlevania expansion of Dead Cells…

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