Arkane director makes plea to executives after \u201cabsolutely terrible\u201d studio closure Arkane Studios\/ BethesdaArkane creative director Dinga Bakaba has taken to Twitter to make a plea to executives after the closure of one of the studios under the developer\u2019s umbrella. Today news hit that Arkane Austin, Tango Gameworks, Alpha Dog, and Roundhouse Games (which is being shuffled into ZeniMax Online) would be closing. This follows a long string of redundancies that have hit Microsoft-owned developers in recent months. In January, a staggering 1,900 jobs at Activision Blizzard and other first-party studios were affected. In response to Redfall\u2018s Arkane Austin closing, Arkane Lyon\u2019s studio director and co-creative director Dinga Bakaba went to X\/Twitter calling the decision \u201cabsolutely terrible\u201d. He directly addressed executives, saying: \u201cTo any executive reading this, friendly reminder that video games are an entertainment\/cultural industry, and your business as a corporation is to take care of your artists\/entertainers and help them create value for you.\u201d He continued by saying: \u201cYou say we make you proud when we make a good game. Make us proud when times are tough. We know you can, we seen it before.\u201d \u201cFor now, great teams are sunsetting before our eyes again, and it\u2019s a f*cking gut stab. Lyon is safe, but please be tactful and discerning about all this, and respect affected folks\u2019 voice and leave it room to be heard, it\u2019s their story to tell, their feelings to express.\u201d The impassioned response comes after over a year of brutal layoffs across the video game industry that has seen thousands of jobs lost at major studios. There had been hope that the job losses might slow down after the end of the last financial year, but these closures serve as a stark reminder that this is still ongoing. Adding to the hurt, an Axios interview from June of last year with Head of Microsoft Game Studios Matt Booty has resurfaced by journalist Stephen Totilo. In it, speaking after the fallout of Redfall\u2019s reception, he said: \u201cThat is the plan right now. They are hard at work on updates and continued content for Redfall.\u201d As Bakaba says, Arkane Lyon, who is currently working on Marvel\u2019s Blade, is \u201csafe\u201d from this round of layoff. It\u2019s not clear if Arkane Austin was providing any specific support on the game, but it will likely have a toll on the game developers still under the Arkane umbrella.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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