We learned earlier this morning that the developer of Pure and Split/Second, Black Rock Studio, was being shut down by owner Disney Interactive Studios. When layoffs struck the company in May, a source leaked that it had previously begun work on Split/Second 2 and Pure 2, but both were canceled.
It struggled to find what to do next, although Eurogamer reports what it had been in pre-production on before its shut down was a free-to-play game called Champions Alliance. It was to be similar to Riot Games’ Defense of the Ancients-inspired free-to-play game, League of Legends (pictured above).
“The idea was that you had to do PVP and PVE to gain XP to somehow escape,” a source told Eurogamer. He or she also said, “The game was intended to be released quite quickly, in beta anyway, in about six months or so.”
