505 Games announces that, following the closure of the studio run by Indivisible, most of the additional content in the game has been canceled, although not all.
Although Indivisible has been a success for Lab Zero Games, it has not helped them to get rid of the final closure, and the matter has been painting quite badly for weeks. Accusations of harassment to the CEO of the studio, Mike Zaimont, led to the massive dismissal of its workers, ending up being shut down suddenly, canceling the additional content that was planned for the game.
As we said, it has been months since the situation at Lab Zero Games was completely unsustainable, with workers having left their position, and those who remained in it, being subsequently fired. The accusations of sexual harassment against Zaimont would have been the trigger for everything to happen quickly until the dissolution of the company was terminated, which in turn put into question all the work they had been involved in for a long time.
Official statement from 505 Games.
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505 Games, publisher of the game, has confirmed that the additional content of Indivisible has been definitively canceled. Having been released last year, it was planned that characters from other games would arrive in the future, such as Shantae, Shovel Knight and more, something that ultimately will not happen, as well as all those characters created by some backers of the game during their campaign on Indiegogo.
Not all content has been canceled
However, there is content yet to come, already practically ready to be implemented. Some of these additions are an update for the Nintendo Switch version with new challenges, a cooperative mode and New Game +. “At this time, apart from the content that is already ready and developed, unfortunately there will be no more production for the game,” they have confirmed from 505 Games.
One more example of the unfortunate consequences that cases of toxic work environment can have, and is that if large companies like Ubisoft can still have a solution, in the case of small studios like Lab Zero Games it is something completely devastating.
