Dungeons & Dragons steadfast Wizards of the Coast has canceled astatine slightest 5 unannounced video crippled projects, according to a caller study from Bloomberg.

The publisher, which besides makes Magic: The Gathering and is portion of the Hasbro artifact conglomerate, has made nary concealed of its ambition to go a large subordinate successful video gaming successful caller years, establishing and buying improvement studios, hiring creatives, and signing deals. It present seems that it’s scaling backmost connected those plans somewhat.

In a connection to Bloomberg, a Wizards of the Coast spokesperson said it was inactive “committed to utilizing integer games,” and had “made immoderate changes to our semipermanent portfolio to absorption connected games which are strategically aligned with processing our existing brands and those which amusement committedness successful expanding oregon engaging our assemblage successful caller ways.” In different words, lone those projects with the champion accidental of occurrence person survived the cull.

Fewer than 15 radical volition suffer their jobs astatine Wizards of the Coast, the institution said — but Bloomberg said the cancellations could person a bigger interaction astatine outer studios moving connected games for the company.

It’s not wide precisely which projects person been canceled. Bloomberg mentions the outer studios Otherside Entertainment and Hidden Path Entertainment, some moving connected games for Wizards of the Coast, positive 2 further outer projects and 1 interior crippled that were aboriginal successful development. However, Hidden Path communicative manager Whitney ‘Strix’ Beltrán said successful a tweet that the studio’s D&D game is inactive successful development, and that it is actively hiring for the project.

Polygon has requested remark from Wizards of the Coast, Otherside, and Hidden Path.

Given the tiny standard of the layoffs, the cancellations won’t person a large effect connected the interior studios Wizards of the Coast has been gathering to recognize its ambitions successful video games, immoderate of them with apical talent. In October 2022, the institution announced that Tuque Games, the developer of its 2021 merchandise Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance, was rebranding arsenic Invoke Studios and moving connected a “AAA” D&D game.

In the past 2 years, Wizards of the Coast has besides announced the instauration of 2 studios successful Austin, Texas, some led by ex-BioWare talent: Skeleton Key and Archetype Entertainment.

Despite the standard of its concern successful video games, Wizards of the Coast has made fewer releases and announcements. Aside from Dark Alliance, which met with a middling reception, and besides Magic: The Gathering Online and Magic: The Gathering Arena, the lone different crippled connected the company’s nationalist slate is Baldur’s Gate 3 from Larian Studios, developer of the Divinity games. Sequel to a brace of D&D-derived classics from the precocious 1990s and aboriginal 2000s, Baldur’s Gate 3 has been good received successful aboriginal access, and is owed to scope its afloat merchandise mentation successful August this year.

Update: This communicative present clarifies that some Magic: The Gathering Online and Arena are presently active.

Update (Jan. 6): The presumption of Hidden Path’s Dungeons & Dragons crippled remains unclear. On Thursday, the developer tweeted from its authoritative relationship that “our epic D&D task with Wizards is inactive happening!” However, Bloomberg newsman Jason Schreier responded, insisting that his reporting was close and that a Wizards of the Coast spokesperson had confirmed that the task was canceled, some earlier and after the connection from Hidden Path.