Earlier this year, Microsoft laid off over 9,000 employees across the company, with every wing affected — including Xbox and several developers under its Xbox Game Studios publishing division, leading to the cancelation of several titles that were a work-in-progress.
Impacted games included Rare's new IP Everwild as well as The Elder Scrolls Online-maker ZeniMax Online's new MMO, and tragically, the Perfect Dark reboot as well. Microsoft also shut down the studio it formed in 2018 to make Perfect Dark, The Initiative, at the same time.
