It’s a significant, brutal move in a year with already thousands of layoffs in the industry, and a sign that after all its acquisitions, Microsoft has begun to cull some of them.
This move comes in the wake of a June 2023 announcement where Xbox’s Matt Booty said there were “no plans” to close Arkane Austin in the wake of Redfall’s performance, but almost a year later, a reversal of that decision has now been made. Redfall was a disastrous release from an otherwise well-regarded studio, an attempt at a live-ish co-op multiplayer game that arrived with extremely poor scores and an underwhelming userbase. In the past year the game received a somewhat significant patch to improve it, but it has not delivered additional content including two extra heroes that were sold at launch but never arrived, and they will not arrive, Arkane said, with players getting a “make good” refund offer instead.
There are reports that Arkane Austin lost 70% of its staff along the way during Redfall development, a game which was retooled multiple times, with some saying Microsoft probably should have made the decision not to release it at all after its acquisition. The idea was Arkane Austin could move on to other projects after this , but apparently that just is not happening.
The Tango shutdown is brutal, as unlike Redfall, Hi-Fi Rush was a huge hit and is arguably the best Xbox exclusive of this generation. Again, we’re still waiting on details of what exactly happened here, but it’s certainly a poor look.
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