How Arkane Studios Lost 70% of its Staff Making Redfall
Podcast:Overworld Weekly: A Wider View of Video Game News Published On: Thu Jun 01 2023 Description: Read Jason's piece here: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-01/arcane-s-redfall-misfire-for-xbox-panned-after-7-5-billion-microsoft-deal Today we delve into the newly uncovered story of Redfall, a critically and commercially disappointing game developed by Arkane Studios and published by Xbox Game Studios that now has me asking a lot of questions about Microsoft, Starfield, and live-service games as a whole. --- Feel free to follow me elsewhere! Twitter: https://twitter.com/brendonbigley Mastodon: https://theaether.space/@bbhttps://wavelengths.online --- Chapters: 0:00 - Intro 1:04 - Where did Redfall come from? 7:51 - What went wrong? 15:53 - On "live-service" games