More than 15 years after it was first announced to the world, the PvP military shooter Warface: Clutch is going away. Publisher My.Games announced in February that it has “made the difficult decision to begin the sunset process” for the game, which will shut down for PC players on May 27.
The end of Warface: Clutch caught my attention because I was honestly surprised that Warface: Clutch hadn’t closed years ago. The game was announced by Crytek in 2010 as simply Warface, initially for the South Korean market, although the decision to bring it to the West followed a couple years later. It was kind of a big deal for a while, as was Crytek, but while it made a good early impression, the full release in 2014 stumbled.
A battle royale mode followed a few years later (because of course it did) and the development team at Crytek split off to form their own studio, Blackwood Games, in 2019—which as far as I can tell no longer exists. At some point, My.Games took over the whole thing, and we basically forgot about it entirely (I’d forgotten about it well before that, frankly) but Warface trundled on under its updated name, drawing in a small but steady audience over the next half-decade-plus.
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