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Arkane Austin Reportedly Wanted To Pitch New Dishonored Before Being Shut Down

By 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:James Lucas

Published May 9, 2024

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Arkane Austin and Tango Gameworks were shut down this week as Xbox and ZeniMax announced plans to focus on fewer blockbusters.
Reportedly, Arkane Austin was interested in pitching a return-to-roots immersive sim, perhaps even a Dishonored game.
Last year, in the FTC v Microsoft case, an internal document leaked revealing that Dishonored 3 was in development. It's unclear if this is at all related.

Xbox shut down fo♐urও studios within Bethesda this week, including Prey developer Arkane Austin. We know the team was working on a Redfall update to finally add offline play, but a new report claims it was also interested in developing a new 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dishonored game.

According to , Arkane Austin wanted to go back to the studio's roots by pitching a new single-player immersive sim game, potentially in the Dishonored series. Last year, during the FTC v Microsoft case over the Activision Blizzard King acquisition, it leaked that 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Bethesda was working on Dishonored 3 - it's unclear if this is connected to the pitch, a separate project, or if it has bee🧸n scrapped amidst the studio shutting down.

The last Dishonored game launched in 2016, although 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Deathloop--which is set in ꦡthe same universe--launched just three years ago.

168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Evil Within and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Ghostwire Tokyo developer Tango Gameworks was also closed down this week. Reportedly, it pitched a sequel to 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Hi-Fi Rush, which would have meant hiring new staff. According to Bloomberg, Xbox Gamesꦑ Studios head Matt Booty and ZeniMax studios head Jiff Braff suggested this was the main reason for shuttering the t♍wo studios.

Arkane Austin Reportedly Wasn't Shut Down Because Of Redfall

Contrary to the popular assumption, Redfall's critical and commercial failure♚ was not the reason be𝔉hind Arkane Austin's closing. Reportedly, ZeniMax and Xbox wanted to put more focus on less projects. "It's hard to support nine studios across the world with a lean central team with an ever-growing plate of things to do," Braff said in the town hall. "I think we were about to topple over."

Because Arkane Austin and Tango Gameworks had pitched expanding to develop sequels, they were reportedly shut down as this would have gone against the narrower focus Xbox want🐼ed.

However, after shutting down Tango Gameworks allegedly for pitching a sequel that would require more staff🅺, Booty said, "We need smaller g♛ames that give us prestige and awards" (as reported by ). In the past, Phil Spencer has described Hi-Fi Rush as a "smaller game", and it has won awards, even coming home with a Game Award, Game Developers Choice Award, and BAFTA.