No more content updates for Bleeding Edge as Ninja Theory focuses on new projects

Current Microsoft acquisition Ninja Concept introduced it’s pulling assist for Bleeding Edge, the multi-player on-line fight recreation lower than one 12 months after releasing it to the world. A full slate of latest initiatives is the given motive for slicing off future content material updates. The announcement comes through the official Bleeding Edge Twitter account as of 9 a.m. PT on January 28, 2021.

With the studio now specializing in our new initiatives (Senua’s Saga, Challenge Mara & The Perception Challenge) now we have determined that there can be no additional content material updates for Bleeding Edge. The sport remains to be playable on Xbox and PC. Thanks to the followers & hold teaming up & inflicting chaos!

— Bleeding Edge (@BleedingEdgeNT) January 28, 2021

Debuting on March 24, 2020, Bleeding Edge shocked Xbox One and Home windows avid gamers in all places with its quick and frantic teamplay that includes an eclectic solid of 13 characters. Born from the lingering concepts leftover from Kung Fu Chaos, Ninja Concept introduced a recreation primarily targeted on brutal 4v4 melee brawls towards competitors that was seemingly all shooters. Maybe this was an element within the declining participant base seen since launch, numbers aren’t out there for Microsoft owned platforms, however the efficiency on Steam speaks for itself with lower than a thousand peak lifetime gamers and a median of solely 4 within the final 30 days.

The silver lining behind the dangerous information for any remaining followers of the very enjoyable and neglected enviornment brawler is that Ninja Concept will now be placing full focus into new initiatives such because the attractive trying Hellblade: Senua’s Saga, comply with as much as the breakout hit Senua’s Sacrifice. Project: MARA, the real-world psychological terror experiment teased somewhat over a 12 months in the past, and The Perception Challenge, an effort to mix recreation design with medical neuroscience, are additionally talked about within the Twitter publish that put a cease to the bleeding for Edge’s improvement.

Ninja Concept additionally stresses that the sport will nonetheless be playable on Xbox and PC for the foreseeable future, and thanks everybody for inflicting chaos of their cyberpunk dystopian on-line basher. We at Shacknews love Bleeding Edge and encourage anybody with Xbox Sport Go to provide the crew fight recreation a spin. For extra perception on Bleeding Edge and the event course of, try our developer interview stream with Ninja Theory on YouTube.