In 2017 Fantasy Flight, a juggernaut in the board game world thanks to stuff like Game of Thrones and Star Wars, opened a video game studio. Barely two years later, Fantasy Flight Interactive is closing its doors.
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The idea had been for the studio to work in two directions: adapt existing Fantasy Flight games into video games, but also to make new games based on the licenses the company already held.
In that time the studio released one game, a digital adaptation of the Lord of the Rings card game that cut some important stuff from the tabletop version and pushed the game in a more Hearthstone-y direction.
Via Gamasutra, the closure was announced in a Linkedin post by studio head Tim Gerritsen, who wrote:
