Earlier this year, Microsoft laid off over 9,000 employees across the company, with every wing affected — including Xbox and several developers under its Xbox Game Studios publishing division, leading to the cancelation of several titles that were a work-in-progress.
Impacted games included Rare’s new IP Everwild as well as The Elder Scrolls Online-maker ZeniMax Online’s new MMO, and tragically, the Perfect Dark reboot as well. Microsoft also shut down the studio it formed in 2018 to make Perfect…

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