When paranormal entities rampage the New York City, the team of four ladies, Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Leslie Jones, and Kate McKinnon get into action to put a stop to the turmoil. This was the basic story of the new Ghostbusters movie.
While the comic-entertainment movie managed to earn quite humble reviews from critics and viewers alike, it seems the game inspired by the feature, which was developed in only eight months, did not hit the right spot with the consumers.
As reported by Kotaku, just three days after the game’s release, FireForge Games, the developers of the movie-based game filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. Also, the company is involved in at least two lawsuits before its closing. The website of the company now leads to 403 error which means the denial of access.
FireForge had initiated two MOBA-like projects and halted them since the studio was established in 2011. One code-named Zeus in collaboration with the famed PC hardware company Razer and another code-named Atlas, which was funded by the Chinese digital giant Tencent, who happens to be the distributor for League of Legends in China. According to Kotaku, the company owes a hefty amount of around $11.3 million to Tencent.
There is a law suit against the company by Singapore-based Min Production which is owned by Razer, CEO, Min-Liang Tan, as he alleges that the funding provided to FireForge by Razer was being used in Tencent’s joint project, Atlas. However, the studio says that they only began working on Atlas after the payment for Zeus was ceased. The studio also faced a lawsuit against them in 2015 by Richard Land who accused them of breaching a $3.7 million deal regarding the licensing of 38 Studios’ social media platform, Helios.