Microsoft cut 9,000 jobs across the company (via Bloomberg) and while the exact number of those layoffs that came from the Xbox division is unclear, the impact is clear. Some studios were closed, and ...

Here's what every game studio under Xbox is currently working on, from Arcane's Blade game to an unannounced game at Halo ...

Just four months later, Blackbird is cancelled by Xbox. "Staff were not given an explanation for Blackbird’s cancellation. It was set to be an expensive project, and Xbox may have seen it as too ...

Zenimax Online has cancelled development on a second, unannounced MMORPG following mass layoffs at parent company Xbox.

Zenimax Online Studios, the studio behind Elder Scrolls Online, is expecting more layoffs following the death of Project Blackbird.

It’s claimed Blackbird’s cancellation caused ZeniMax Online Studios boss Matt Firor to ‘immediately’ hand in his resignation, with his departure confirmed in a note from the studio on ...

This included layoffs at the Xbox division and the cancellation of at least three games - Perfect Dark, Everwild, and the ZeniMax Online Studios MMORPG with the codename Blackbird that had been in ...

The union says that its staff was blindsided by Microsoft's decision, and remains in the dark about its future.

Another casualty of the cuts is Blackbird, an unannounced MMORPG from ZeniMax Online Studios, the creators of Elder Scrolls Online. According to Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier, the game had been in ...