Microsoft recently announced 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:plans to lay off 10,000 employees, and Xbox Game Studios weren’t spared. Bethesda, 343 Industries, and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Gears of War developer The Coalition 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:all had to downsize to varying d🍌egrees. Now we’re finding out that the layoffs at The Coalition resulte🌺d in two unannounced projects being cancelled.
During today’s , industry insider Jeff Grubb confirmed that The Coalition cancelled two unannounced games, with one intended to train studio staff on Unreal Engine 5. However, that game was considered expendable as the studio had already worked with Unreal 5 on 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Matrix Awakens.
"It does seem likeಞ they feel like 'well, we are up to speed because we worked on [The Matrix Awakens],' and so they have cancelled that smaller project as well as another project," reported Grubb. "So there's been two games cancelled there. This was all reflected in the layoffs that happened at Microsoft that did hit The Coalition a little bit, but the studio is now going to move on fully to Gears 6."
We know very little about the cancelled projects, although there is some speculation that it was related to The Coalition's Unreal Engine 5 demo, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Alpha Point, which was revealed in July 2021. That demo primarily showcased the incredible texture and lighting effects possible in UE5 through a series of arid ruins. The other project 168澳洲幸运5开奖🐎网:might have been 🌳a Gears of War remaster, but now we may never know.
Grubb noted that The Coalition has always been the Gears of War studio, so it's hardly surprising that Gears 6 is on its way. Things are looking even worse at sister studio 343 Industries, which was rumored to be hit the hardest in the recent Microsoft layoffs. Sources speaking to IGN estimate that 16🅺8澳洲幸运5开奖网:up to a quarter🐠 of 343's staff was laid off, which has fans 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:concerned for⛄ the future of the Halo franchise. T🐈here were even rumors that 343 would move to a publisher role and hand over development to other studios.
In response to these rumors, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Xbox head Phil Spencer confirmed tha💟t 343 will remain the "heart and soul" of Halo and is "critically important" to the franchise's future success.
