An untitled survival game was axed during yesterdays massive layoffs from Microsoft.
Tragically enough, it was on the day exactly two years ago since Blizzard announced that they were working on a fantasy/survival adventure, when Microsoft yesterday delivered the tragic message that 1,900 employees from the gaming division (8% of their total staff) would lose their jobs, including the team making the game – and the game itself was cancelled. A very sad second anniversary in every way.
While we’ll likely never get to see this title (although we suspect some concept art and descriptions from ex-workers will find its way online eventually), the Bloomberg journalist Jason Schreier has some information on why it was ultimately axed. As previously rumored, it had been in development since 2017 and had around 150 people working on it.
