Vamers says: “The Evil Within 2 released five years ago. Since then, Tango Gameworks and Shinji Mikami have remained suspiciously out of the spotlight. While presumably working on their new project, fans understandably became worried well before Ghostwire: Tokyo made its surprise debut at the PlayStation Showcase 2020. Despite much about the title remaining a mystery, fans rightfully have reason to be excited. Fast forward to a recent and exclusive Ghostwire: Tokyo preview event, where Tango Gameworks graced media with a lot of new information many fans have been craving; namely in the form of a cool new trailer, an interview [or two], and a whole lot of new gameplay.”
The Evil Within, Ghostwire: Tokyo and Hi-Fi Rush studio has closed its doors.
Ninja theory. Others will follow as well. The smaller studios MS owns should all be worried. Maybe MS will try and release some of their games day and date on ps5 to save some of these studios.
I can see Ninja Theory. At least Tango made a game that was reviewed well. Ninja Theory spent a lot of years to release a tech demo that didn’t do well at all.
I get it that Hellblade 2 is a boring game, but I hope they are not the next to be closed.
@repssahj
Ninja Theory is likely on the chopping block too. They released Bleeding Edge which bombed, took 4 years to release Hellbalde 2 which doesn’t seem to be doing well, and still have Project Mara in limbo. They’re high on the chopping block.
MS was likely expecting their God of War / Uncharted quality game from NT based on Heavenly Sword, Enslaved, DmC, and to an extent Hellblade 1, but NT hasn’t delivered since Hellblade 1 which was 7 years ago.
3 trillion MS is worth, yet they do this, well Phil the shit bag did. No studio needed to be let go, when you are worth this much.
Sad, but I see characters and posters of either less than average or barely average games.
Have to disagree here duder, with respect. Evil Within was a good game and the sequel was fantastic, as was HiFi Rush. I'd concede Ghostwire was pretty average but regardless, shuttering a studio which just put out MS best game in donkeys years was complete shithousery on XBox' part.
Microsoft paid 8B to buy Zenimax then fired well over 1000 people from Zenimax between the time they closed the deal and they announced these shut downs.
People talk about the 1900 they fired most recently, but that was only one wave of three sets of layoffs from their gaming division so far this generation totalling around 5000 people this generation. Not counting the dozen plus studios they canned last gen including Lionhead the original Fable developers.
By every real metric HiFi was an average game. I don't see an Evil within poster in the thumb, which is a shame, because if they threw their weight behind that IP, they might have still been around.
I don't understand how you can say it was average in every metric when it garnered the reviews it did?
Hi-FI Rush sits at an 87 on Meta with an 8.8 User Score. By every real metric that matters it's better than average and it's definitely a game made by a studio that should not have been shut down.
Here are the games that will be leaving the Extra and Premium tiers of the PS Plus subscription service by the end of March, 2024.
The latest game made free for a day on the Epic Games Store has been revealed, and it's Tango Gameworks' supernatural action game Ghostwire: Tokyo.
Pretty decent game, enjoyed it quite a bit. They really should have scaled it down a bit though, a bit too much open world padding for my liking.
But a sequel would be quite interesting if they get the balance right
This is old, sorry. Says "3H AGO" but it was available yesterday. Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition is now available for free, for another 13 hours or so then it changes.
