The Video Game Thread v3

[chemgear]

Gamers Nexus Consumer advocacy on games.

(Trigger warning for conspiracy morons)

[Since1984]

Large layoffs across the board with Microsoft and XBOX today.

It looks like The Initiative, a studio working on Perfect Dark, has been closed and the game cancelled.

Other Games cancelled so far by XBOX today are Rare's Everwild and a new MMORPG that Zenimax was working on.

It's only halfway through the day so there could be more announcements coming.

[chemgear]

That sucks.

EDIT: I can't believe that they've let Phil Spencer drive this into the ground for so long. Wild. It's not like you can remotely blame Don Mattrick anymore.

[chemgear]

/cringe

https://twitter.com/user/status/1940405211107074198

[TorqueDog]

Employee morale in tech is at an all-time low. It is incredibly depressing the way they've been doing this across the company, I lost a few good partner PMs I worked with in the May RIF.

[chemgear]

Sorry to hear man. Reading that people are just getting locked out of Slack and logins without notice or HR messages. Sounds massive across the board and chaotic.

[chemgear]

In more positive video game news, Final Fantasy Distant Worlds concert is coming to Calgary later this year. Tickets here:

https://www.ffdistantworlds.com/concert/calgary2025

[SuperMatt18]

Corporate greed is out of control right now

[Since1984]

HellDivers 2 and the people of Super Earth finally get the advanced reinforcements they need