While strong rumors and reports from the pertaining developers appeared last Tuesday (story), Interplay has now officially announced that TORN, the 3D role-playing game by Black Isle Studios, has been cancelled and that several developers were laid off. Here is the brief announcement as received by HomeLAN Fed:

Black Isle Studios' title, TORN, has been canceled. In conjunction with the cancellation, five of the 56 member Black Isle Studios staff were laid off. All of the remaining members of the TORN team are now working on other internal Black Isle Studios RPG products.