For the moment, at least, it appears that OD is safe.
Microsoft laid off 9,000 employees earlier this week, cancelling games Everwild, the Perfect Dark reboot, and an unannounced MMO in the works at ZeniMax Online Studios in the process. Romero Games‘ new shooter fell victim to the massacre too. One game that apparently didn’t get cancelled, though, is OD, the new thing from Hideo Kojima, with support from Xbox Studios, that was announced in 2023.
You’d be forgiven for forgetting OD. It’s a game, Kojima said through a translator at the 2023 Game Awards, „but it’s at the same time a movie, but at the same time a new form of media.
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USA — software Hideo Kojima's mysterious OD reportedly escapes the cancellation axe at Microsoft