"Burbank" was set to be a life sim with dramatic storylines. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

Veteran game designer Jake Solomon has announced the shock closure of his studio and the apparent cancellation of its "next-gen" life simulation game, while publishing a glimpse at how it worked.

Jake Solomon's decision to move from making some of the best strategy games ever to an ambitious life sim was a perplexing but exciting one. Spinning up a new studio, Midsummer, he pitched it as "a ...