Scavengers studio Midwinter Entertainment has been sold by Improbable, Eurogamer can reveal.
The sale to Dead by Daylight developer Behaviour Interactive marks another studio gone from Improbable, as it ditches its previous designs on video game development backed by its ever-nebulous SpatialOS cloud technology.
As a result of the sale, Scavengers’ console versions – currently being tested via a closed alpha – have been cancelled, Eurogamer has been told. Its PC version currently remains alive, as a small internal team keeps it operational.
Midwinter, now part of Behaviour Entertainment, has meanwhile been put to work on a fresh project.
Founded in December 2016, Midwinter is a small outfit of around 30 people, formed by a cluster of former Halo developers from 343 Industries. Its aim with Scavengers was to make a game inspired by Halo 5’s Warzone – a project worked on by various team members – with a “co-opetition” mix of PVPVE at a much grander scale, thanks to SpatialOS.