No more Evil Within 🤔

Those poor people, I really hope they land on their feet

Also I hope The Evil Within 3 finds a new home

Funny because Shinji Mikami left Tango recently, I wonder if he knew what was coming

The industry just isn’t the same these days

That's crazy. Wasn't hi fi their highest rated game in years.

I wonder if it's because the studios founder left and others followed.

How the hell do you drop the ball on tango gameworks?

Closing Tango is a travesty. I was disgusted when MS acquired them. Guess it turned out even worse than I could have imagined.

*looks at everyone who said buying activision would be good for the industry*

Look what recouping costs looks like. Tango delivered a great game in Hi-Fi Rush, and it didn't save them. Arkane is unfortunate but after Redfall, not wholly unexpected.

This sucks.

So much for phil I'm a huge supporter of arkane Spencer

The two studios had bled talent so I'm guessing they just didn't see them worth saving. Brutal business.

I bet someone at MS will get a nice bonus for this.

Isn't this the second or third round of firings at Bethesda since MS brought them out and limited where they can put their games?

The guys that made hifi? Ooftah

I dont even know where to begin with. They acquired so many studios only to release mediocre games with Live Service elements to them, and then they started consolidating their studios by closing down competent ones.

Arkane Austin was forced to make a multiplayer game (just like Lionhead was forced to make a multiplayer Fable game), only to have them close down. That was a truly terrible move as they closed down a revered single player RPG developer studio at a time where they needed exclusives most (they also cancelled third party exclusive Scalebound).

Tango released a critically acclaimed game (which by August 2023, reached 3 million players between purchased copies and Game Pass subscriptions) which apparently was not enough.

That is terrible news by all accounts and no xbox fanboy should defend/spin this.

I just hope the developers are integrated into other teams or find other studios to work with

perfect timing after sony got shit for helldivers. haha. ridiculous.

i cam smell the bs that's coming our way from Phil.

Gamers: “we want Xbox to fail! Sales are down!! Woohoo!!”

Also gamers: “Xbox is evil, they’re shutting down studios that make games!”

Dang it not Tango Gameworks. I wanted to see what they could do for Evil Within 3 with a bigger budget.

You just know, after all this, there will still be people online begging Microsoft to buy Sega.

After reading Matt Booty statement, they’re culling out diversity of games to put money on sure winners. A three trillion dollar company can’t even take a risk on small titles like HIfi rush….pathetic.

WTF?
Honestly, this is a piece of terrible news, especially regarding Tango gameworks which produce quality titles.
What message is this sending?
Produce great quality game but in the end you might still get fired?

Tango Gameworks deserved better than this. Dark days.

They dont care about talent or anything when they do cuts, they just consolidate and make people work harder and make shittier games in longer time.

The tango closure is shocking to me. Hi-fi rush started the positive turn around for Microsoft’s gaming division. This after they promised that soon the exclusives would come and when they finally started to they switched to multiplat. None of the big 3 care about the fan base and I get that becaus businesses are started to make money, but there is zero reason to have an Xbox now. Ask Phil he’ll tell you.

Worst generation ever. I feel an industry crash incoming.

I do hope everyone affected by this finds work very soon. Sad times

Are you shitting me

Hi-Fi Rush is refreshingly one of the only games to catch majority of people by total surprise when it drops

Hi-Fi Rush launches as an incredibly good game and reviews extremely well

Hi-Fi Rush wins multiple awards during award season

Hi-Fi Rush is one of the flagship games that Microsoft sends to other platforms to show off the standard of its first-party games

Microsoft shuts down the studio that made it

All in the space of like 16 months? Unbelievable...

Nice Work Phil keep going until the gaming industry is f**ked

Seems like a waste of cash to purchase someone just to shut down some studios. But hey least they lasted longer then when Google bought up three studios just to shut them down after a year.

Where's that "renewed support for Japanese studios" MS? What a joke

It feels like we are in a recession. There are no careers anymore. Everyone is getting laid off and the companies are downsizing their labor force.
Everything is getting less and less affordable by the day.

I don't know why Microsoft closed Tango but it seems 2024 will be the year of layoffs.

Microsoft and xbox are a cancer to the gaming community since phil spencer took over, can't wait or him to get the AX.

Somewhere deep down... I knew they would cut Tango off. They don't make Xbox style games.

Again, NO Executive accountability or departures. Succession meets Gaming

Great! Microsoft and their policies and shareholders just shut down an actual studio with talents, like Tango Gameworks because...reasons.
TBH this industry deserves to crash for all those crappy decisions take all for the sake of "profits" and less about what us(the consumer) wants or needs.

Congratulations xbox fanboys and Phil this is good for gaming right....

Tango made a smaller game going against the non sustainable standard of AAA gaming and Arkane was forced to released an incomplete game Phil knowingly pushed out to cover his arse for the lack of exclusives after the Bethesda purchase. When execs fk up, employees pay the price. Had plans to buy Hifi but now I won't buy it at all.

Like i said a few months back, Microsoft and idiot phil should have never bought Bethesda

Welcome to the future under Microsoft as they work to consolidate and recoup their massive costs on buying publishers. Everyone who was against MS' acquisitions saw this coming, all the idiots who praised it as good for competition are now acting surprised.

Game Pass is NOT sustainable. Get it through your heads.

Microsoft will focus on a handful of core IP that will sell, but over time they're going to degrade just like Starfield and Redfall because Microsoft does not care for gaming and because Game Pass CANNOT SUSTAIN TRIPLE A DEVELOPMENT.

This is not the last of it. Not even close.

Only Live Service games remain... when Hellblade 2 comes out... well good luck people at Ninja Theory. (RIP)

LOL!! Closing Tango Gameworks down? Their only Japanese studio. I'm guessing Hi Fi Rush didn't sell well on PS. Smh....MS should't have bought multiplat studios in the first place just to shut them down. Ninja Theory will probably be next.

I suppose HIFI Rush wasn't that shadow dropped banger of the century. Barely anyone played that game. And Redfall is a bad game that no one asked for.

naur 💀

I understand the other studios. Maybe Austin deserved another chance since they didn't want to make Redfall in the first place. But I guess after Redfall and their other games being underwhelming or underperforming. It is what it is.

Tango is a weird one though. They made nothing but good games. What happened to using GamePass to uplift smaller and unique games?

There goes my hopes for an Evil Within 3. Y’know, I was one of those people all for the MS acquisition and look what happens… devoured the studios for “quality” games. People said this would happen, lesson learned. Thanks Microsoft, thanks for f*cking nothing.

Wow surprised by Tango. They only just released hifi on ps5 why not give it more than a month to see if it sells well?

It's not my type of game but it got great reviews. Did it not sell well or something? If that's the case my guess is gamepass is to blame. People rather of rented than buy it over on Xbox.

Why are the comments turning this into some Sony thing? What does Sony have to do with Microsoft shutting down their studios under ZeniMax?

Tango Games being closed is something else to me. Now it makes sense why Shinji Mikami left.

Tango Gameworks closure was unexpected. Hi-Fi Rush is in this month's Humble Choice, that came out today, so I'll be adding it to my Steam library right now.

Ohboy Microsoft, closing Tango Gameworks is just crazy cruel. Dudes were really cooking and you said f off... Nice....
Edit:

So who's next on the chopping block MS???!

im not really sure, who this benefits

😂😂😂

It sucks that we'll never get The Evil Within 3 or Prey 2 now.

R.I.P.

Why? Just why?

...terrible.

I’m done with Xbox. Great hardware, love the performance patches for older OG/360 games, but the brand has been on a slow decline ever since the debut of Kinect in 2010. Arkane Austin’s closure is a slap in the face. First they make them release an unfinished game, then they shut them down. Terrible management at all levels at Xbox (aside from the hardware team).

Who's next? id Software or MachineGames? This is absolutely ridiculous. I was looking forward to The Evil Within 3. I guess after that absolute 5-head move buyout of Activision they had to cut corners somewhere.

I take a break for a day or two and this is the 1st thing I see? Wow

Ouch, that’s rough. Hopefully some good comes out of it.

One thing that I think is overlooked here with Microsoft is yes they made a lot of Developer and Publisher acquisitions over the last 5yrs but what's not talked about is how do the employees feel about being bought out by Microsoft. Microsoft constantly has dumpster fires several at a time at different Developers and IMO many of the employees didn't want the buyout to happen they weren't happy with the buyout and they're not happy now. Now I get in many cases what an employee wants is irrelevant but once the acquisition is made they become Microsoft employees. IMO Microsoft regardless of what they say they micromanage these Developers and projects to a unhealthy degree and this will reflect in effort of unhappy employees and in the finished protects which in this case is games and we've seen enough to know that what Microsoft First Party has released in the last 5yrs has not been good. Microsoft Xbox needs new Leadership at the Top meaning anyone in a Xbox Exec position from Phil Spenser on down needs to be replaced. Phil Spenser has pretty much been the #1 or #2 guy at Xbox since the OG Xbox released 25yrs ago......He got ta go!

If anyone still wonders why I hate the xbox brand and wanted it to die for a long time this is why. MS is a cancer to the gaming industry. They have proven it time and time again

Do xbox fans now understand why many of us PS fans were worried when MS just gobble up Beth as welll as Activision? There was no way in hell MS would be able to be profitiable from these acqusition knowing that their market share is terriable and taking MP's and make them exlcusive will ensure the deaths of those studios beause of the loss in revenue. Now here we are right at where everyone knew was going to happen.

Worst still their virus has started to infect Sony and Playstation and I worry this gen is the end of AAA story driven games that I can buy and own froever like so many gens before.

At the rate Sony is going I doubt I wil buy a PS6.

FFS

Tango Gameworks really?!! Been saying it for over a decade, Phil Spencer is a joke!!

Worse company on the planet bar none.

Many of us saw this coming. Gamepass is not sustainable with 50 studios or whatever they have. They will close more studios, have a few a studios handling all of the IP and focus most on MT’s , battle pass type of games because they aren’t selling physical copies. On top of that gamepass price has to go up by a good amount to even maintain that. Quality will go down with different studios handling closed devs IP. This was foreseeable a mile away but Xbox gamers begged for it just to have what they saw as some sort of win. In the end we all lose with more formerly multiplat studios closing down.

They shut down a company that made their best game this generation. This generation is a joke.

Arkane Austin – This studio will close with some members of the team joining other studios to work on projects across Bethesda.

Roundhouse Games – The team at Roundhouse Games will be joining ZeniMax Online Studios (ZOS). Roundhouse has played a key role in many of our recent game launches and bringing them into ZOS to work on The Elder Scrolls Online

Lol what reality are you guys suspended in? Welcome to the purge lol. Been warned for the last couple years but you fanboys don’t get it.

Top rated comment claims that these company’s are competing to see who’s worst,? Lol. Is it that hard to admit they’re all one in the same now? The machine is eating itself lol.

Maybe now would be a great time to buckle up and get ready for this quick descend into the future lol.

This is only the beginning, wait for the next showcases from these company’s, and how you will all fall short of the truth and fall right back into line picking sides in these manufactured differences lol.

Sounds like the higher up morons or whatever title these lame mfs go buy just tryna find ways to pocket money

Something happens like this that was so obvious for the last two years shouldn’t surprise anyone.

Xbox entire management gotta go.

Damn Microsoft.. I said shut the game down not the studio… y’all can’t even listen right 😂😭😭

Seriously... F*** this industry. MS can go eat s*** today. I'm disgusted and I'm done. Is this really the industry we all want to prop up? Bc I certainly can't stand the taste and smell of s*** and yet if this is what we choose to allow we all better get used to the smell and taste as companies just like MS buy up beloved studios, consolidate their monopoly and eliminate competitive buying power. So I say, kick MS where it really hurts. Dump your Xbox subscriptions en mass and let them know you won't be buying a single one of their games or hardware in the future. Bombard their X feed. This is outrageous and an audacious spit in the face of these devs and us the fans.

I've said it before and I'll say it again:

It's not about the talent. It was never about the talent.

It's about Game Pass content and IPs. It is not a coincidence that the people obsessed with AI who recently went on a publisher purchasing spree are closing studios from the publisher we purchased somewhat recently.

Keep going, Microsoft. Keep screwing the labour. You'll answer for it eventually, whether that means breaking up your game studios or people boycotting your products.

Can't see who this helps Phil

I hope Gamepass tanks the whole division.

Your asses thought you looked cool, trying to pay the tabs on an incredible amount of games just to say it would launch there.

Fxxxers cried about Final Fantasy not being on the system, instead of keeping the eco system going and just buy the game were it's available. Entitled cents.

A whole as dogshit company didn't want nothing but ruin gaming for a great many.

so sad! :"(

So this was all lies from MS, not surprised as MS has always been full of it https://twistedvoxel.com/mi...

Arkane is one of my fave studios and I knew that MS would destroy them one day.
Redfall was only bad because of Bethesda/MS. they didn't deserve this.

Holy shit!!! Dishonoured 3???? Prey 2???? Not happening forget about it! Doesn’t matter who the devs are, or who owns them, they’re only ever one bad game away from closure nowadays. The industry is down the toilet big time, literally every publisher is making record profits and yet there are record amounts of firings and closures.

I'm glad I grew up in the 90s and have played games throughout so many fantastic periods but when I step back and look on the horizon I don’t see things changing for the better anytime soon.

This gen has sucked big time.

I hope nobody is surprised by this. Microsoft is a plague upon every industry they touch.

That's a lot of people. Hope they bounce back. Why did MS make such a huge purchase only to close them down? They're are absolutely incompetent.

Holly crap… what do you guys think about all this?

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau