Sackbird Studios Emerges From the Xbox Layoffs

Sackbird Studios emerges from the Xbox layoffs

When Microsoft and Xbox announced layoffs numbering in the thousands earlier this year, it meant the end for a whole bunch of upcoming game projects. Many studios were forced to downsize, and some shuttered entirely, as a result. Luckily, some enterprising developers are turning the bad news into something positive.A group of former devs from ZeniMax Online Studios, which made The Elder Scrolls Online and scrapped looter shooter Blackbird, have …

Techrights — New XBox Leaks Probably Serve to Confirm XBox's Collapse (Many More Layoffs)

It's very much consistent with what many other sites have reported lately

Former ZeniMax Devs Who Were Fired By Xbox Create New Company Called Sackbird Studios

They're not even trying to be subtle... - Back in July — when we first started hearing about mass layoffs and project cancellations at Xbox — we learnt t...

Former ZeniMax Online devs form Sackbird Studios

"We realized the best way to protect our craft – and our team – was to create a studio where creative independence isn’t negotiable," says CEO

Former Project Blackbird developers band together to found – wait for it – Sackbird Studios

When you get a project you worked on for years that was in a compelling state swept out from beneath you, you are more than entitled to throw a bit of shade. So it goes for the former developers on Project Blackbird and The Elder Scrolls Online who have banded together to form the new Sackbird Studios. […]

Following Microsoft's mass layoffs, former Elder Scrolls Online and Blackbird devs form worker-owned studio

Following Microsoft's mass layoffs earlier this year, a group of former ZeniMax developers have formed a worker-owned studio dubbed Sackbird. Made up of folks who worked on The Elder Scrolls Online and a cancelled MMO codenamed Blackbird, the studio have confirmed they're working on an unnamed original game that'll hit PC and consoles. Zenimax's Blackbird project was one of numerous games cancelled as Microsoft laid of around 9,000 staff in July…