Primal Carnage PS4 development on ice

Episodic game has "taken a bit of a back seat".
Text: Mike Holmes
Published 2014-05-27

Lukewarm Media were working on Primal Carnage: Genesis, an episodic adventure game for PlayStation 4 that acted as companion to the PC-only multiplayer game, Primal Carnage.

Originally the game was announced as a PS4 title, intended to land around the same time as the console hit store shelves last November. That last bit obviously never happened, and it's looking possible that the game will never see release, after the studio recently admitted they're no longer working on it.

Lukewarm founder Aaron Pollack told PushSquare that "Primal Carnage: Genesis isn't out of the picture entirely, but it has taken a bit of a back seat to the work that our team's been doing to greatly improve the existing game."

As noted in the same article, it looks like part of the reason behind the delay is the fact that the studio has actually split in two, with another founder - Ashton Anderson - Tweeting earlier this year that he and his team had left the studio: "my team and I are no longer with lukewarm media. We left to start a new studio and project due to bad partnership."

It's not clear what this new studio - Virtual Basement - is working on, with Andersen conceding on Twitter that when it comes to the rights for Primal Carnage, it's "a complicated situation".

In the meantime it seems that Pollack is confident that the PS4 title is still going to happen, even if focus is still currently on keeping the PC title up-to-date. We await more news with interest.

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