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Sorry, Sleeping Dogs fans. You waited so patiently while United Front Games worked for a few years on the Triad Wars MMO boondoggle. You held your breath when the studio announced the early access microtransaction engine Smash+Grab. You bravely stayed the course, but it was all for naught. You’ll likely never get Sleeping Dogs 2 now. At least, not the one you imagined, if publisher Square-Enix ever revives the franchise and gives it to another studio. United Front Games is no more. Smash & Grab has already been de-listed from Steam and developer tweets from the Canadian studio responsible for the open-world Hong Kong brawler indicate the company has run out of time.

United Front Games was started in 2007, and besides Sleeping Dogs, they created ModNation Racers on the PlayStation 3 and worked on Halo: The Master Chief Collection on the Xbox One. You can read Tom’s thought on Sleeping Dogs here.

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United Front, developers of Sleeping Dogs, has heard your cries for more Hong Kong crime stories. Triad Wars is their PC-exclusive, online game about running triad gangs, being a kung-fu antihero, and grinding for reputation. The announcement trailer shows a lot of shenanigans that should be familiar to Sleeping Dogs fans. Is it going to be free-to-play? They don’t mention the pricing anywhere, but this description may give you a hint.

On the mean streets of Hong Kong, however, brawn alone won’t be enough – you’re going to need money first, and for that you’ll need brains.

Triad Wars is tentatively scheduled to release in early 2015, but you can sign up to enter the closed beta now.

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