Earlier this week, Xbox management made the choice to shut a number of high-profile studios together with Hello-Fi Rush developer Tango Gameworks and Arkane Austin, the studio behind Prey and Redfall. Although the unlucky reality is that layoffs and studio closures have gotten more and more frequent within the gaming business, the web was fast to level out that these two particularly felt a bit… complicated. Largely as a result of they appear to go towards lots of Xbox’s earlier statements and objectives.
Again in 2023, Xbox reportedly claimed that Hi-Fi Rush had been a success for the company and it planned on reinvesting in the team in the future. The studio additionally admitted they had neglected to give Arkane Austin proper support, and expressed a desire to work alongside the team to improve Redfall. So what occurred?
All this confusion has resulted in discussions round what the platform holder’s intent for the way forward for Xbox is, and hypothesis on what half Recreation Move performs in it. On this episode of Spot On, Lucy and Tamoor focus on the closures, the aftermath of them—together with some complicated statements from an exec—and what the way forward for Xbox could appear to be.
Spot On is GameSpot’s weekly information present wherein managing editor Tamoor Hussain and senior producer Lucy James discuss in regards to the newest sport information. Given the huge online game business’s extremely dynamic and unending information cycle, there’s at all times one thing to speak about. In contrast to most information reveals, Spot On will dive deep right into a single subject as an alternative of recapping all of the information. Spot On airs every Friday.