Hi-Fi Rush studio saved from Microsoft shutdown

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Hi-Fi Rush developer Tango Gameworks has been spared closure, 3 months aft Microsoft announced plans to unopen down the studio. Krafton, the South Korean steadfast down PUBG: Battlegrounds and The Callisto Protocol, announced connected Monday that it had acquired the crippled and its Japanese studio, and is moving with Xbox to alteration a “smooth transition” to guarantee the Tango Gameworks squad tin “continue processing the Hi-Fi Rush IP and research aboriginal projects.”

Microsoft had initially announced successful May that it was closing Tango Gameworks, alongside Redfall developer Arkane Austin and Mighty Doom developer Alpha Dog Studios — 3 studios it inherited aft acquiring ZeniMax successful 2021. The impending Tango Gameworks closure was widely criticized by the gaming community astatine the time, arsenic Hi-Fi Rush had won respective awards during the 2023–2024 awards season.

Being spared from Microsoft’s wave of layoffs and workplace closures is simply a destiny that Tango Gamesworks shares with Skylanders developer Toys For Bob, which alternatively near Microsoft / Activision to go an autarkic workplace earlier this year.

The worth of the woody has not been disclosed. Hi-Fi Rush was the lone Tango IP mentioned successful Krafton’s announcement, truthful it’s unclear if Microsoft is relinquishing the rights to the studio’s different franchises similar The Evil Within and Ghostwire: Tokyo. We person reached retired to Krafton for clarification. The PUBG proprietor says the acquisition won’t interaction the availability of Tango Gameworks’ existing crippled catalog.

Krafton says it volition enactment the Tango Gameworks squad to present “fresh and breathtaking experiences for fans” — which means we whitethorn yet spot the rumored Nintendo Switch Hi-Fi Rush larboard that ne'er materialized, oregon perchance adjacent sequels to the game.

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