For those that don't know, American McGee announced plans for a 3rd Alice series game called Alice: Asylum back in 2021, developed by his own Mysterious Studios in collaboration with Virtuous Games. He collaborated with the 3000+ Patreon backers for the game to create a design bible for the game, a plan for how the game would be made with things that the patreon backers wanted to see in the game, and came up with a game production plan with partner studio Virtuous Games. Problem is, EA still owns the license to American McGee's Alice series. So, American McGee sent both the design bible and the production plan to EA. After several weeks of review, he heard back from EA; they not only didn't want to partially fund the development of the game alongside the patreon funding, they wouldn't even sell the IP to him or license the IP to him for a set number of years so that he could get the rest of the funding needed to develop the game on his own, even though EA has no current plans to use the IP. And so, the 3rd Alice game is now dead because of EA.
EA won't let @americanmcgee make another Alice gamehttps://t.co/lT7KHUwPaC
— Eurogamer (@eurogamer) April 8, 2023
