Sniper Elite Battle Royale has reportedly been cancelled

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Rebellion's Sniper Elite battle royale “Project Archipelago” has reportedly been canceled due to the loss of funding from Tencent.
The cancellation was not due to development issues, but was reportedly due to Tencent's decision after another project failed.
Rebellion staff were unaffected by the cancellation, as they continue to work on other titles, including Sniper Elite: Resistance.

A live-action battle royale game based on developer Rebellion Developments Sniper elite The series has reportedly been cancelled. The game was originally announced in August 2024 as a multiplayer spin-off game Sniper elite names.

Once considered a low-budget “copycat” series that followed the trend of games based on World War II, Sniper elite first debuted in 2005, telling the fictional story of an American sniper operating behind Nazi lines. Later Sniper elite the titles visited other theaters of war and adopted additional mechanics that received critical and popular acclaim and cemented the franchise's place in the upper echelons of the best stealth shooter games. The Sniper elite the series has also become known for its particular focus on sniping, with the implementation of gruesome “X-ray” kills that show bullets penetrating the heads, torsos, limbs, and even private parts of enemies, depending on where the player aims. The series even got its own horror-based spin-off in the form of Zombie army games where skilled shooters battle hordes of the undead.

Climb up to the enemy with a sniper and a rifle on his back

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Unfortunately for Rebellion, its plan to expand the series into the multiplayer space with a game codenamed “Project Archipelago” appears to have been scrapped. According to a report from Insider Gaming, Project Archipelago is no longer moving forward despite being announced for less than four months. The game was also known as “Sniper Island” and was meant to be a multiplayer game Sniper elite The Battle Royale title pits teams of players against each other.

Developer Rebellion is reportedly canceling Sniper Elite Battle Royale

According to the report, the reason behind the cancellation of Project Archipelago is not due to development issues, but the loss of funding from Tencent, which funded the project. At the meetings, the employees of the Uprising hinted that the fate of ConcordSony's published multiplayer hero shooter influenced Tencent's decision to stop funding Project Archipelago. Concord was a major project for PlayStation Studios, but was deemed a failure shortly after its debut. The game was discontinued less than two weeks after launch, and its developer Firewalk Studios was shut down at the end of October 2024.

While the apparent loss of the Archipelago project is unfortunate, it doesn't seem to have affected the current staff at Rebellion Developments. The studio is developing other titles as well, including the next major single-player game Sniper elite series. Sniper Elite: Resistance will be released in January 2025 for Xbox and PlayStation consoles and PC and promises to take the series to France during World War II with a new protagonist working with the French Resistance against the Nazi occupation.