The latest update in the popular Football Manager series has been cancelled, its makers have announced. Fans of the long-running video game began to speculate about its fate when an update due to be unveiled late last month did not arrive.

The fateful announcement went up on official Football Manager social media channels, with a brief explanation that "following extensive internal discussion and careful considerati

Football Manager was once one of the year's most reliable annual sights, alongside Call of Duty or EA's now-off-brand FIFA, but for the first time in two decades, the next entry has been officially canceled.