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Former ESO Lead Speaks Out On Xbox's Decision To Cancel New ZeniMax MMO
"Making games is always a heartbreaking business".Last summer, seismic news shifted through the world of Xbox as Microsoft cancelled multiple projects and laid off hundreds of developers, with one of those cancellations being 'Project Blackbird', a new MMO from the folks behind The Elder Scrolls Online. It's a shame that this Cyberpunk RPG never came to market, and we're not the only ones disappointed by that either.Former ZeniMax Online lead Matt Firor has been talking about the unfortunate casualty in a recent interview with MinnMax (thanks, Windows Central). Firor said that he "understood the reasoning behind it", but that news of the game's cancellation was "a pretty devastating blow" nonetheless. After all, Firor "came up with the concept" for Project Blackbird and nursed it through multiple stages of development.Read the full article on purexbox.com
https://www.purexbox.com/news/2026/04/fo...enimax-mmo
"Making games is always a heartbreaking business".Last summer, seismic news shifted through the world of Xbox as Microsoft cancelled multiple projects and laid off hundreds of developers, with one of those cancellations being 'Project Blackbird', a new MMO from the folks behind The Elder Scrolls Online. It's a shame that this Cyberpunk RPG never came to market, and we're not the only ones disappointed by that either.Former ZeniMax Online lead Matt Firor has been talking about the unfortunate casualty in a recent interview with MinnMax (thanks, Windows Central). Firor said that he "understood the reasoning behind it", but that news of the game's cancellation was "a pretty devastating blow" nonetheless. After all, Firor "came up with the concept" for Project Blackbird and nursed it through multiple stages of development.Read the full article on purexbox.com
https://www.purexbox.com/news/2026/04/fo...enimax-mmo