Une vague de licenciements chez Microsoft le 2 juillet 20XX a fait une autre victime : le reboot tr\u00e8s attendu de Perfect Dark. La confirmation est venue dans un e-mail envoy\u00e9 par Matt Booty, directeur du contenu Xbox chez Microsoft, \u00e0 tous les employ\u00e9s Xbox. Outre l’annulation du jeu, l’e-mail a \u00e9galement confirm\u00e9 la fermeture du studio The Initiative, qui d\u00e9veloppait le jeu. Zack Zwiezen a rapport\u00e9 l’annulation le 2 juillet 20XX. Fond\u00e9e en 2018, The Initiative \u00e9tait dirig\u00e9e par Darrell Gallagher (anciennement de Crystal Dynamics et l’un des cerveaux derri\u00e8re le reboot de Tomb Raider) et comprenait de nombreux v\u00e9t\u00e9rans de l’industrie. Perfect Dark \u00e9tait cens\u00e9 \u00eatre le premier jeu du studio, mais il partage maintenant le m\u00eame destin que Cliffhanger Games : fermeture avant d’avoir termin\u00e9 son projet inaugural. Dans l’e-mail, Booty a \u00e9galement confirm\u00e9 l’annulation d’autres projets et d\u00e9clar\u00e9 que les RH fourniraient un soutien aux personnes concern\u00e9es par les licenciements et la fermeture du studio. Microsoft pr\u00e9voit reportedly de licenciair environ 9 000 personnes, avec de nombreux employ\u00e9s Xbox touch\u00e9s par ces mesures. Perfect Dark a \u00e9t\u00e9 officiellement annonc\u00e9 en 2020 lors des Game Awards de cette ann\u00e9e-l\u00e0. Sa premi\u00e8re bande-annonce, montr\u00e9e lors d’un Xbox Showcase l’ann\u00e9e derni\u00e8re, a r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9 le gameplay pr\u00e9vu pour Perfect Dark en 2024, bien que la date de sortie n’ait pas \u00e9t\u00e9 incluse dans la bande-annonce. En 2023, un rapport d’IGN a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 que le d\u00e9veloppement de Perfect Dark \u00e9tait reportedly tumultueux en raison d’une mauvaise gestion et de diff\u00e9rences cr\u00e9atives internes. \u00c0 un moment donn\u00e9, le d\u00e9veloppement aurait red\u00e9marr\u00e9, et le projet aurait \u00e9t\u00e9 transf\u00e9r\u00e9 sur Unreal Engine 5.<\/p>\n
Perfect Dark est le troisi\u00e8me projet \u00e0 \u00eatre annul\u00e9 suite aux licenciements de mercredi, avec Rare’s EverWild et un nouveau MMORPG non annonc\u00e9 d\u00e9velopp\u00e9 par l’\u00e9quipe The Elder Scrolls Online. Cela marque la quatri\u00e8me vague de licenciements chez Xbox ces 18 derniers mois, que de nombreux observateurs consid\u00e8rent comme une cons\u00e9quence directe de l’acquisition d’Activision Blizzard en octobre 2023. Depuis l’ach\u00e8vement de cette acquisition, la division jeux vid\u00e9o est sous une pression immense pour augmenter les marges b\u00e9n\u00e9ficiaires et r\u00e9cup\u00e9rer les 69 milliards de dollars d\u00e9pens\u00e9s. Depuis 2022, l’industrie mondiale des jeux vid\u00e9o a connu de nombreuses r\u00e9ductions massives d’effectifs. Cependant, cette p\u00e9riode au Br\u00e9sil a \u00e9t\u00e9 marqu\u00e9e par l’approbation de la loi sur les jeux, une l\u00e9gislation pionni\u00e8re susceptible d’avoir un impact positif sur l’ensemble de la cha\u00eene de production des jeux \u00e9lectroniques du pays. Pedro Zambarda, r\u00e9dacteur en chef de PlayersForLife, explore ces deux r\u00e9cits dans son livre Crash des jeux vid\u00e9o : De la pierre angulaire de la loi sur les jeux vid\u00e9o aux r\u00e9ductions massives, disponible d\u00e8s maintenant sur Amazon. Jetons un coup d’\u0153il \u00e0 notre campagne de financement participatif \u2014 notre effort collectif de collecte de fonds. Suivez PlayersForLife Games sur YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, TikTok et Instagram.<\/p>\n
Pour ceux int\u00e9ress\u00e9s par des analyses plus approfondies sur les r\u00e9cents d\u00e9veloppements chez Microsoft et leurs implications pour l’industrie du jeu vid\u00e9o, consultez l’analyse d\u00e9taill\u00e9e de Bruno Pferd intitul\u00e9e \u00ab\u00a0Microsoft annule Perfect Dark et ferme le studio The Initiative\u00a0\u00bb (publi\u00e9e le 2 juillet 2025), qui se penche sur les licenciements et les projets annul\u00e9s touchant Xbox, notamment Rare\u2019s EverWild et plusieurs titres non annon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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