{"id":1569452,"date":"2026-05-04T00:05:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T00:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dEA9hD7u3Fr4sSGWQEvStg"},"modified":"2026-05-04T00:05:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T00:05:32","slug":"former-elder-scrolls-online-boss-describes-tango-gameworks-and-arkane-austin-closing-as-a-turning-point-at-xbox-i-know-where-this-is-going","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/former-elder-scrolls-online-boss-describes-tango-gameworks-and-arkane-austin-closing-as-a-turning-point-at-xbox-i-know-where-this-is-going\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Elder Scrolls Online boss describes Tango Gameworks and Arkane Austin closing as a turning point at Xbox: &#8216;I know where this is going&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>In a recent interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/42I1imOrcfg?si=NL0S9v1v5iMkx418\" target=\"_blank\">MinnMax<\/a>, ZeniMax Online Studios founder Matt Firor described his reaction to his MMO, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/mmo\/former-eso-boss-matt-firor-talks-about-the-death-of-unrealised-mmo-project-blackbird-microsoft-is-microsoft\/\" target=\"_blank\">Project Blackbird, getting canceled<\/a>, as well as his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/rpg\/why-didnt-anyone-think-of-this-before-former-elder-scrolls-online-boss-loves-crimson-desert-but-making-a-singleplayer-mmo-is-almost-like-cheating-to-him\/\" target=\"_blank\">more general thoughts<\/a> on the current moment in the industry. To hear Firor tell it, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/gaming-industry\/microsoft-announces-4-studio-closuresincluding-arkane-austin-and-tango-gameworks-creators-of-prey-and-hi-fi-rush-respectively\/\" target=\"_blank\">closure of Arkane Austin and Tango Gameworks<\/a> on the same day was recognized as a sign of things to come inside Xbox.<\/p>\n<p>Firor said that the one-two punch caused developers to, in Firor&#8217;s words, see themselves in an &#8220;EA 2008&#8221; situation, a reference to the publisher cutting 1,100 jobs in response to the &#8217;08 Financial Crisis at the beginning of 2009, with an even larger 1,500-person layoff to come later in the year. Firor said that the presence of industry veterans at ZeniMax Online primed them to recognize this likely meant more hardship to come. <\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-video\" data-nosnippet >\n<div class=\"video-aspect-box\"><iframe data-lazy-priority=\"high\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/42I1imOrcfg\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;[The Elder Scrolls Online team] was hundreds and hundreds of people by that point,&#8221; said Firor. &#8220;The Blackbird team alone was 300. We had people that worked everywhere. That day, people just came into my office like, &#8216;I&#8217;ve seen this before. I know where this is going.&#8217; We had people leave in the weeks after that, just because it didn&#8217;t feel good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Firor also reiterated that this is an industry-wide problem, not just an Xbox one: &#8220;I know we&#8217;re talking about Xbox here, and specific situations, but these situations happen way too often all over the place.&#8221; Even with that being said, though, Firor seemed optimistic about the industry as a whole, saying elsewhere in the MinnMax interview that he sees the current industry layoff crisis as being of a piece with previous boom and bust cycles.<\/p>\n<p>There doesn&#8217;t seem to be much consensus about the state of things, though, other than &#8220;it&#8217;s bad.&#8221; In a recent interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/we-were-there-in-the-80s-for-the-crash-and-this-is-definitely-crashier-john-and-brenda-romero-reflect-on-the-industry-crisis\" target=\"_blank\">GamesIndustry.biz<\/a>, legendary designer Brenda Romero said that, &#8220;We were there in the &#8217;80s for the crash, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/gaming-industry\/the-industrys-in-a-really-horrible-place-brenda-romero-says-we-were-there-in-the-80s-for-the-crash-and-this-is-definitely-crashier\/\" target=\"_blank\">this is definitely crashier<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"product\"><a data-dimension112=\"865e5dd6-00bf-48aa-a16f-5abe7b6baac8\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2026 games\" data-dimension48=\"2026 games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:661px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:98.94%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"6offQUY4CXebir2TC27dMd\" name=\"kingdom come 2 square\" caption=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/former-elder-scrolls-online-boss-describes-tango-gameworks-and-arkane-austin-closing-as-a-turning-point-at-xbox-i-know-where-this-is-going.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"661\" height=\"654\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" credit=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/new-pc-games-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-dimension112=\"865e5dd6-00bf-48aa-a16f-5abe7b6baac8\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2026 games\" data-dimension48=\"2026 games\" data-dimension25=\"\"><strong>2026 games<\/strong><\/a>: All the upcoming games<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Our all-time favorites<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-50-best-free-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Free PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Freebie fest<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-fps-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best FPS games<\/strong><\/a>: Finest gunplay<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-rpgs-of-all-time\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best RPGs<\/strong><\/a>: Grand adventures<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-co-op-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best co-op games<\/strong><\/a>: Better together<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/gaming-industry\/former-elder-scrolls-online-boss-describes-tango-gameworks-and-arkane-austin-closing-as-a-turning-point-at-xbox-i-know-where-this-is-going\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent interview with MinnMax, ZeniMax Online Studios founder Matt Firor described his reaction to his MMO, Project Blackbird, getting canceled, as well as his more general thoughts on the current moment in the industry. To hear Firor tell it, the closure of Arkane Austin and Tango Gameworks on the same day was recognized as a sign of things to come inside Xbox. Firor said that the one-two punch caused developers to, in Firor&#8217;s words, see themselves in an &#8220;EA 2008&#8221; situation, a reference to the publisher cutting 1,100 jobs in response to the &#8217;08 Financial Crisis at the beginning of 2009, with an even larger 1,500-person layoff to come later in the year. Firor said that the presence of industry veterans at ZeniMax&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/former-elder-scrolls-online-boss-describes-tango-gameworks-and-arkane-austin-closing-as-a-turning-point-at-xbox-i-know-where-this-is-going\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1569453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[5491],"class_list":["post-1569452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-gaming-industry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Former Elder Scrolls Online boss describes Tango Gameworks and Arkane Austin closing as a turning point at Xbox: &#039;I know where this is going&#039; | 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