TL;DR: ZeniMax Online's cancelled MMO, codenamed "Blackbird," was a cyberpunk-inspired third-person shooter with MMO elements, aiming to rival Destiny. Despite Xbox CEO Phil Spencer's enthusiasm ...

TL;DR: ZeniMax Online Studios founder Matt Firor is leaving after nearly 18 years amid Xbox layoffs and the cancellation of the new MMORPG Blackbird. Joseph Burba will lead the studio, continuing ...

Instead Xbox has done the opposite, seemingly so fearful of being an overbearing landlord that it's allowed itself to become a totally absent one, allowing its studios to struggle and wheeze as bricks ...

Yesterday, Bloomberg reported the cancellation of an MMORPG codenamed 'Blackbird' that had been in development at Zenimax Online Studios since 2018.

It's not yet known how many people at ZeniMax and other Microsoft-owned studios are being put out of work, but game director Ben Jones indicated that the unannounced MMO's entire development team ...

While Bylos doesn’t know exactly what happened with Zenimax’s Project Blackbird, he does know the will of investors. “I know that a lot of investors are actually about safe cash cows,” he ...

As a result of the layoffs, which affected around 9,000 employees according to CNBC, Xbox closed The Initiative, cancelled Perfect Dark, Everwild, and Zenimax Online Studios' MMO, codenamed Blackbird.

He states an MMORPG from Zenimax Online Studios (the developer behind The Elder Scrolls Online), which has been in development since 2018, has been cancelled. Update #1 [Wed 2nd Jul 2025, 7:10am]: ...

The recent layoffs in Microsoft's gaming division have sparked major discussion of whether Xbox Game Pass is a financially ...

Codenamed Blackbird, a new third-person MMO from ZeniMax Online Studios, has been canceled, despite being one of the most internally hyped games at Xbox. The project was shut down during the July ...