Xbox is shutting down Arkane Austin, Tango Gamesworks and 2 other studios

[bongowongo]

https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/st...5Es1_&ref_url=

Microsoft has closed a number of Bethesda studios, including Redfall maker Arkane Austin, Hi-Fi Rush and The Evil Within developer Tango Gameworks, and more in devastating cuts at Bethesda, IGN can confirm.

Alpha Dog Studios, maker of mobile game Mighty Doom, will also close. Roundhouse Games will be absorbed by The Elder Scrolls Online developer ZeniMax Online Studios. Microsoft did not say how many staff will lose their jobs. IGN has asked Bethesda and Microsoft for comment.

On Redfall, the disastrous vampire co-op game will now not receive promised updates as Microsoft has ended all development on the game. Microsoft said Redfall will remain online to play, and it will provide a "make-good" offer for those who bought the Hero DLC.

Arkane Lyon, which is working on Marvel's Blade, survives the cull, as does Bethesda Game Studios (Fallout, The Elder Scrolls, Starfield), and Machine Games (Indiana Jones and The Great Circle). Doom developer id Software is also unaffected.

https://sea.ign.com/hi-fi-rush/21536...and-more-in-de

RIP to
Redfall
Dishonored
Prey
Hi Fi Rush
Evil Within

[BearyManilowe]

Jeeesus. Just fold the whole company at this point.

[AD117]

Holy fuk, Tango is gone? GG to Evil within

[rectifryer]

Because that's what Microsoft does. They don't want to make hardware OR software. They just want to sell licenses and subscriptions.

Holy fuk, Tango is gone? GG to Evil within

It's an absolutely inane action on Microsoft's part to buy them, hold them for no reason, then close down. Absolutely no point in this except to be anti-competitive.

[Coal Man]

Not to mention the massive amount of employees that were fired from other divisions.

This is gutting, to say the least

[phaginator]

Microsoft and Xbox have always been garbage for gaming.


Let's see how Xcels will cope

[Paul Kreul]

Let's see how Xcels will cope

Well maybe I can finally pick up PREY on sale & give it a try.

That’s a good thing…right?

[Akd123]

I just heard 10 minutes ago. This is VERY BAD news.All because Redfall flopped they are shutting down everything. Fuking BS. Nothing but bad news left and right. Hopefully Sony or whoever can pick up the pieces cause they made some of the best games in the last 10 years. Mother fukers i hate these ph@ggots

[freeburn]

Whoever made redfall deserves it

[yabbayabba]

Microsoft and Xbox have always been garbage for gaming.


Let's see how Xcels will cope

Always love the "real gamer" takes. phaggy boy is happy hundreds of people are now unemployed in an industry that is already having problems because they worked for the other team. But I guess when all you want is tranny walking simulators then you don't want any competition.

[Akd123]

Whoever made redfall deserves it

Yeah but the other teams didnt deserve it especially Tango. This is a HUGE blow. Dishonered,Prey, Evil Within,even Death Loop were really good highly praised games. I even Liked Ghostwire Tokyo. All those games had plenty of life left in them. I can only hope this loss is someone elses gain. If i was mega rich id but them in a second. I want another Evil Within and Ghostwire

[ScramFranklin]

Wow, Fuark Microsoft. Tango had one of their best games in a long time with Hifi Rush, Jonah Johannes was a rising star in the dev world.

[mgftp]

Does this mean we will never see a Redfall 2? Fawk, RIP.

[freeburn]

Yeah it seems insane to have shut a couple of those studios down, notably the hifi rush guys.Hifi rush was probably Microsoft best product this gen lol...

[TokenV]

RIP

for real this time

sad honestly

[phaginator]

Always love the "real gamer" takes. phaggy boy is happy hundreds of people are now unemployed in an industry that is already having problems because they worked for the other team. But I guess when all you want is tranny walking simulators then you don't want any competition.

Lol at this coping Xcel vatnik, it's microsoft you should be mad at not me.

[ScramFranklin]

https://x.com/johnjohanas/status/1787877169504391613

[freeburn]

So, is Xbox just not making any more games now or....?


Whos left lmao

[FallOutBrah]

dayum and here I thought microsoft was the good guy out of the "big 3"...

[BigBallsMcgee]

its XOVER

It never began

xbox is DEAD

[ScramFranklin]

So, is Xbox just not making any more games now or....?


Whos left lmao

Who’s left to shut down? Quite a bit

Maybe double fine, ninja theory, or obsidian is next

[BraneyGumble]

- MS spends billions on acquisitions
- projects killed
- studios closed
- people laid off

Business as usual.

So they've managed to buy Zenimax for 7.5 bil just to get Redfail, Starflop - zero sales since it's on Game Pass, also first Bethesda game in history that not even modders give a schit - and some Indiana Jones game that everyone already hated since the first trailer.

[CrimsonSteel]

The industry is on the ground, foaming at the mouth, having a violent seizure. No wonder there are barely any new titles, if your game doesn't become an instant Fortnite or shovel annoying propaganda down gamers throats they just shut your ass down.

[SirFapsAIot]

such is the way of conglomerates

[Coal Man]

Surely Subgamer and taskmob will be here any moment now right? They came out swinging to defend the industry over the Helldivers fiasco.

I can't imagine how outraged they must feel about this news.

[phaginator]

Where's Jay hiding?

[Akd123]

Surely Subgamer and taskmob will be here any moment now right? They came out swinging to defend the industry over the Helldivers fiasco.

I can't imagine how outraged they must feel about this news.

Somehow in their minds they will rationalize this a L for Sony and a W for Microsoft cause they are so retarded

[ScramFranklin]

https://twitter.com/klobrille/status...94632577114298

[ScramFranklin]

I was already leaning towards going either ps/switch or pc/switch since Xbox announced games going to other platforms, but this cements it for me

[freeburn]

The industry is on the ground, foaming at the mouth, having a violent seizure. No wonder there are barely any new titles, if your game doesn't become an instant Fortnite or shovel annoying propaganda down gamers throats they just shut your ass down.

Pretty much


I feel bad for alot of these devs and employees. They probably worked hard to get themselves into the gaming industry, to do something they were passionate about... And now it's basically a dogchit industry to be in unless you're the CEO