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Redfall and Ghostwire: Tokyo studios shut down by another round of Microsoft layoffs


Three months after a round of 2,000 job cuts, Microsoft has closed Arkane Austin and Tango Gameworks, subsidiaries of Bethesda Softworks, which it acquired in 2020.

But the ambitious, supernatural shooter that Arkane Austin launched in May 2023 is officially done, and will not be be receiving any post-launch support, much less the two DLC characters that Xbox had promised at the time of released. Tango Gameworks was founded by Shinji Mikami, who had worked in the early 2000s for Capcom on the Resident Evil Franchise before moving on to PlatinumGames and titles like Vanquish. A second-generation newspaperman, Good's career before covering video games included daily newspaper stints in North Carolina; in upstate New York; in Washington, D.C., with the Associated Press; and…

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