Xbox Recreation Studios’ new Good Darkish sport — the undertaking that was first revealed in 2020 because the debut title from inside studio The Initiative — has been canceled. Matt Booty, head of Xbox Recreation Studios, confirmed the sport’s cancellation and the closure of The Initiative in a observe to workers, based on a report from Home windows Central.
“We’ve made the choice to cease growth of Good Darkish and Everwild in addition to wind down a number of unannounced initiatives throughout our portfolio,” Booty mentioned. “As a part of this, we’re closing one in all our studios, The Initiative. These selections, together with different adjustments throughout our groups, replicate a broader effort to regulate priorities and focus assets to arrange our groups for better success inside a altering business panorama. We didn’t make these selections calmly, as every undertaking and group symbolize years of effort, creativeness, and dedication.”
The reboot of Uncommon’s Good Darkish franchise was revealed at The Recreation Awards 2020, two years after Microsoft based The Initiative, the Santa Monica, California-based studio led by Darrell Gallagher, former studio head at Crystal Dynamics. Xbox Recreation Studios re-revealed the brand new Good Darkish throughout a 2024 displaying of the sport, which was mentioned to concentrate on ecological sci-fi themes.
Final yr, Booty mentioned Good Darkish would concentrate on “a near-future struggle over superior tech that threatens the lives of hundreds of thousands.” Taking part in as heroine Joanna Darkish, gamers would make use of stealth, parkour, high-tech gadgetry, and good old school firearms to fend off world catastrophe. The sport was deliberate to function components of first-person shooters, immersive sims, and stealth-action.
Good Darkish was being developed by The Initiative and Crystal Dynamics for Xbox Collection X and Home windows PC. The sport by no means had an introduced launch date.
The unique Good Darkish was launched on Nintendo 64 in 2000. A remaster was launched for Xbox 360 in 2010. Uncommon adopted up the unique sport with a derivative for Recreation Boy Coloration in 2000 and a prequel, Good Darkish Zero, in 2005.
