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 ...

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

Recently Microsoft announced layoffs of about 9,000 employees, affecting several game teams, including Zenimax, with significant cuts. In this middle, a new MMORPG, Codename Blackbird, developed by… ...