BLACKBIRD project, working title for the upcoming MMORPG Z Online Zenimax StudiosReportedly, it has been canceled because the parent company Microsoft announces the sweeping of release on several of its brands. Zenimax Online Studios provided further work on Fallout 76 and Fate (2016), but it's probably best known as developer Older scrolls onlineOther fantasy MMORPG set in the world of Nirn.
Older scrolls online was officially introduced in May 2012, six months after the release SkyrimAnd it started almost two years later, in April 2014. More than ten years after its release, the game still sees the daily number of players more than 88,000, and although it did not reach the same level of critical success as a newer franchise newer game for single player, it showed surprising longevity.
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After this success, Damax Online Studios apparently worked on another MMORPG, but new reports indicate that it was canceled before it was officially revealed or provided with the right title. According to playing journalist Jason Schreier, transferring information from Bloomberg and actively covering significant releases in the studies of Microsoft, which is happening today, the Blackbird project has been developing since 2018, about four years after the company launched Older scrolls online. It does not seem to officially confirm any of this information, but comes in the middle of a flood of reports on other canceled projects and possible release of up to 9,000 workers in development studies owned by Microsoft, which is about one of every 25 members of the company's workforce.
Microsoft reportedly shut down MMORPG after seven years in development
Breaking: The new MMORPG project from Zenimax Online Studios, Maker Elder Scrolls Online, was canceled as part of the Xbox release, TELL Bloomberg News. The project, the code blackbird, has developed since 2018. Even more news will come this morning. -Jason Schreier (@jasonschreier.bsky.social) 2025-07-02T15: 05: 30,540z
Project Blackbird is not the only upcoming game in Microsoft, which is said to be ax before its release. Messages also show that game Action-Adventure Everwild He was canceled after the first time was announced that it would evolve in a rare more than five years ago and after more than ten years in development. This message was particularly surprising because Microsoft has published a promising news about the game just a month ago and even presented it during the Showcase Xbox Games 8. Initiative and Crystal Dynamics' Perfect darkness He was also allegedly canceled.
Although this does not necessarily lead to a complete shutdown of their games in development, it seems that the release is strongly influenced by many other studies under the Microsoft banner. Messages indicate that many studies are working on Call of duty Games are hit hard as they are Forza Motorsport series The developer Turn 10, which Schreier reports, is about to lose about half of its employees. This appears about a week after the news that Turn 10 stiffened for layoffs, which was originally reported by Tom Warren of Verge.
