"1000-player" battle royale Mavericks: Proving Grounds canned as studio shuttered

Sorry battle royale fans, but that 1000-player game nobody could stop talking about on Reddit is no more.

Ever since it was announced as Project X back in 2017, Mavericks: Proving Grounds was tossed around as the potential future for the battle royale genre. The original plan was to have 1000 concurrent players in a single world, with up to 400 people playing the PvP mode at the same time on a stonking 12km x 12km map. It sounded incredibly ambitious - possibly too ambitious, as UK studio Automaton Games has now gone into administration.

"Paul Cooper and Paul Appleton were appointed joint administrators of Automaton Games Limited on 30th July 2019," the studio announced on its website. "Please be advised that due to insufficient funding, the development of the Mavericks: Proving Grounds game has now ceased.

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