Team Kaiju, remember, is the nickname that Tencent gave to this team based between Los Angeles and Seattle. Attached to the TiMi label, Team Kaiju’s main faces were Scott Warner (Halo 4, Battlefield Hardline, xDefiant) and Rositza Zagortcheva, former producer on the Battlefield franchise. An interview from October 2021 explained that the studio aimed to reach around 150 employees to work on a AAA multiplayer FPS. Two years later, the plans fell through and even sank to the bottom of the ocean.
“ We can confirm that we have shut down Team Kaiju and canceled the studio’s unannounced game project. As part of this decision, we transferred many of our teammates to other projects within Tencent and TiMi and bid farewell to a few talented teammates. TiMi remains committed to creating games for global audiences and will continue to hire and work on our other games projects in North America. We thank all members of the Kaiju team for their efforts, passion and professionalism », Confirmed Tencent in a press release.
Remember that the TiMi label brings together most of Tencent’s biggest hits such as Honor of Kings, Pokémon Unite and Call of Duty Mobile. No longer wanting to limit itself to mobile, TiMi is currently working on Delta Force: Hawk Ops for consoles, PC and mobiles. And if we can no longer count on Team Kaiju to represent the West, the TiMi Montreal studio is still working on a multiplatform open-world role-playing game using the Unreal Engine 5. To stay with Tencent, remember that the Californian studio Lightspeed LA recently unveiled its very first title at The Game Awards, Last Sentinel, an open-world action game set in a futuristic Tokyo under reconstruction.