Sackbird Studios Emerges From The Xbox Layoffs

When Microsoft and Xbox announced layoffs numbering successful nan thousands earlier this year, it meant nan extremity for a full bunch of upcoming crippled projects. Many studios were forced to downsize, and immoderate shuttered entirely, arsenic a result. Luckily, immoderate enterprising developers are turning nan bad news into thing positive.

A group of erstwhile devs from ZeniMax Online Studios, which made The Elder Scrolls Online and scrapped looter shooter Blackbird, person banded together to shape a caller institution called Sackbird Studios. Perhaps unsurprisingly, nan squad is going for nan employee-owned, self-funded route. "With nary extracurricular investors and afloat imaginative control, nan squad is focused connected building awesome games—on their ain terms," nan announcement states. 

Right now, nan elder squad numbers less than ten people, including CEO Lee Ridout and COO David Worley. Sackbird is already successful progressive improvement connected its first project, but nan unit isn't sharing immoderate specifications different than that nan crippled will beryllium disposable connected some PC and consoles.