Overview
- FuturLab confirmed on Tuesday that it cancelled a non-PowerWash project that had been in pre-production and that seven people left the studio as a result.
- CEO Kirsty Rigden told This Week In Videogames the title was shelved because it would have cost more to make than it was likely to earn and the move was meant to protect the company.
- Multiple outlets report the cancelled project had been in development for two to three years and that affected staff were left without new assignments for weeks after the June 2026 cancellation.
- Anonymous sources say managers and team leads were not informed when those employees stopped coming to work, and that staff were later told to avoid the word 'redundancy' and instead call the departures 'the leavers.'
- FuturLab has declined to disclose whether the exits were formal redundancies, a stance that has drawn scrutiny over the studio’s communication, employee morale, and how it conducts restructuring.