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Out of the ashes of Pandemic’s shuttering comes a demo trailer for Mercs Inc, a multiplayer game set in the Mercenaries universe. Pandemic Studios was officially shut down last week, but that doesn’t mean that its Mercenaries franchise is dead. A demo video has been leaked for a title called Mercs Inc, which was in development at Pandemic before the studio was dismantled. The trailer comes courtesy of Dorian Compo, former visual effects artist at Pandemic, who describes Mercs Inc as a “multiplayer sandbox” game. On his website, he writes “Too bad it was cancelled because the effects were coming […]