Fantasy Flight Interactive are closing their doorways simply two years after opening

The makers ofThe Lord Of The Rings: Adventure Card Game, Fantasy Flight Games, have introduced their digital studio, Fantasy Flight Interactive, is closing down in February. The game’s servers will nonetheless be supported, however for now it’s goodbye to the studio that created it.

Studio head Tim Gerritsen took to LinkedIn to report the information, writing: “It’s with great sadness that I have to report that the decision has been made to close Fantasy Flight Interactive next month. I’m proud of the team and the game we’ve dedicated ourselves to for the past few years. It’s been an amazing journey with even more amazing people.”

You could know Fantasy Flight Games from their tabletop titles like Star Wars: Armada, or Twilight Imperium, however in 2017 the video game studio opened to create digital variations of their board and card games.

We aren’t informed why the studio have made the choice to shut this yr, however in response to Gamasutra, layoffs have been going down throughout varied departments of Fantasy Flight Games.

If you’re an avid participant of The Lord Of The Rings: Adventure Card Game, don’t fear, a developer from father or mother firm, Asmodee, confirmed in a put up on Steam that they’ll proceed to help the game’s servers after the studio’s closure. Asmodee will even proceed with the deliberate launch of the game’s Definitive Edition on consoles this yr, which launched on PC again in December.

In an interview again in 2017, Matt Cox spoke to Gerritsen concerning the new digital studio that was excited to begin “creating great game experiences”. Since then, Fantasy Flight Interactive launched their first and solely game, The Lord Of The Rings: Adventure Card Game again in August final yr. Matt Jarvis, the editor-in-chief of our company sibling Dicebreaker, considers it to be one of the best board games on PC.