Xbox today announced internally it is closing four Bethesda studios, three years after acquiring the company – Arkane Austin, Tango Gameworks (creators of TGA winner Hi-Fi Rush), Alpha Dog and Roundhouse.
Xbox today announced internally it is closing four Bethesda studios, three years after acquiring the company – Arkane Austin, Tango Gameworks (creators of TGA winner Hi-Fi Rush), Alpha Dog and Roundhouse.
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Sad to see tbh, they made good games. Xbox Leadership requires to be fired instead.
Man This is bullshit, Prey was underrated and Hi – fi Rush was a Amazing breath of fresh air…
This is just heartbreaking…
Microsoft doing Microsoft things.
As a fan of horror games I feel especially sad about Tango Gameworks, would have been a great addition to the Xbox portfolio.
Gonna be honest, let’s be rational. Tango’s lead left(Hi fi rush devs). Due to redfall, almost all arkane austin staff left. And been a while since we saw any stuff from alpha dog and roundhouse. Says they’ve been migrated to zenimax online so their work probably won’t change much as they usually make collabs with other studios.
Sad to see the Microsoft trend occuring once again, but it is what it is I guess. Bethesda (softworks not only bgs) do have management issues, and people have been crying about that for some time. Seems like a response to those.
Hopefully the people are able to find new jobs or even form new studios where they can operate independently again.
Arkane Austin I get but tango makes no sense.
Looks like they are making a good call to me. With the exception of wolfenstein all the other studios big releases flopped or are too old to matter anymore
Yet another day in this nightmare world where the line on the growth graph must continue to rise ad infinitum.
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What arkane us one of the best studios out there ive always had a xbox but i cant surport them when they do stuff like this ive apready started saving to move to pc
1st Microsoft employee: Sony is fucking up! What do we do?
2nd Microsoft Employye: Let’s close down the studios people love! We can’t let Sony take a bigger L then us!
1st Microsoft Employee: Wonderful idea!
Why is it always when Sony fucks up, Microsoft has to do something as dumb or dumber in order to regain negative press? As far as I remember, whenever Sony manages to fuck up, Microsoft always has to insert themselves into negative news too. It’s almost too comical. At this point can you really blame Sony for monopoly, when their competition is so inept, that they always manage to outshine Sony’s fuck ups with their own bigger fuck ups? God I hope there will be a new competition on console scene, cause expecting Xbox to compete is clearly an expectation that’s too much for them to fulfill.
Does anyone know what will happen to the physical release of Hi Fi Rush via Limited Run Games? We haven’t had any updates on that.
Fuck, I’ve been playing through the recent Wolfenstein series and have really been enjoying it.
Arkane is not shuttered if I’m reading everything g correctly,only the Austin branch, aka the branch that created one of the worst games of the year.
Studios get closed sometimes, people losing their jobs sucks but if you’re not making money you’re gonna close, doesn’t matter if you made a fun game, it has to appeal to the masses or it’s not gonna matter to anyone.
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Minor correction, they killed arkane Austin, not the main studio.
Eh all in all it may be a smart call. Lot of mediocrity on that list
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Does anyone know what this means for Arkane’s Blade?
arkane following the disastrous mess of redfall should see this coming
hifi rush isnt for me so i dont even look into, but so far i only see people praising and game got prizes etc, was a surprise see hifi people being demob too
I despise Microsoft
They better leave id alone …. Are they even working on anything new haven’t heard any news in forever
Arkane will continue. I mean, the Dishonored team. Redfall team was the one that was closed.
Microsoft is taking a page from EA. I’m so tired of this shit man. Pill Spenser and his bullshit. They said a year ago Hi-Fi rush was a major success for Xbox and now this, just after one year.
If they want to make Fallout and an Elder Scroll in parallel , restructuring make sense
Ok. So what does that mean for gamers? Because I don’t really give a shit about it this, as long as I still get the games that I am looking forward to.
Edit: haters be haters, even when they don’t realize it’s good for themm
Fucking disgusting. This studio acquisition race is bullshit man.
What about Blade?
Never heard of any of them, or hifi rush till today and now it’s being spammed everywhere. To me it won’t make a difference. Why is everyone freaking out about this? Genuinely wondering.
I will never get The Evil Within 3… what a sad day
Hi-fi rush lead left the company. Arkane Austin fucked themselves with Redfall, and most left. Alpha Dog and Road House haven’t been profitable for years. None of this is sad or a surprise. People forget that companies aren’t people. The developers at these companies are NOT the same ones that were there when they made your favorite game 10-15 years ago.
This seems more like a delayed consequence of Zenimax’s fuck up. These studios are already deep in the hole when MS took over. And even then, MS only bought Zenimax mainly for the big Bethesda games.
Damn Prey was awesome. If you haven’t played it yet then you absolutely should.
The Game Pass business model isn’t working and I feel like no one wants to admit it.
I think they thought that they would be able to buy up tons of Publishers and studios and corner the market like Netflix did in the early days, but it didn’t pan out that way at all.
Game Pass is probably a huge reason no one bought Hi-Fi Rush, because why would you?
Surprised it’s not more. Probably gonna get rid of more in the future.
So does this mean that we are no longer getting a Wolfenstein games?
fucking hell man
I’m not at all surprised Arkane Austin got shut down the entire studio was turning into a circus of problems even prior to red falls release especially when all the top minds behind there games left after red falls release on top of extremely poor sales I knew that either they were gonna get reformed or outright shut down
God fuck Microsoft
I was upset about the arcane one until i realized it’s not all of arcane studios just the one that gave us redfall. But I also liked prey…. I’m not sure how I feel Microsoft just killing these companies.
Are the dishonor games any good? , they didn’t peak my interest , same with prey
Arkane as a still exists, it’s just their Austin studio that got closed.
So predictable; they paid for Fallout and Elder Scrolls. Anything else was just a bonus.
Fire the leadership first… wtf. Its been like 3 years since MS bought Bethesda. I hate seeing conglomerates purchase smaller successful studios just to shutter them after a down quarter.
It sucks but when you look at it from a business perspective, it makes sense. Austin and Roundhouse developed Redfall and it flopped hard. Alpha Dog made unsuccessful mobile games, and Tango made 2 games which didn’t profit.
Layoffs are never ok but in this case it makes a lot of sense from a business perspective. Every one of these studios would have shut down if they were independent.
Doublefine looking around super nervous now.