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- Cancelled
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Xbox Series X|S
TBA
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Perfect Dark News
News New Leak Reveals Fresh Details & Concept Art For Xbox's Cancelled Perfect Dark Reboot
Apparently shared by a former developer
We've been wondering when more details might start to leak out about Xbox's recently cancelled Perfect Dark reboot, and it's now begun - courtesy of an apparent "former developer" who's shared some details with the outlet MP1st. Let's start with those details. The outlet says it's seen documentation that...
News Perfect Dark Studio Head Issues Final Statement As He Leaves Team Xbox
"My time at Xbox has come to a close"
After years of promise, and exercising a certain amount of patience, Xbox studio The Initiative shut down earlier this year - taking the Perfect Dark reboot with it. Considering the game looked pretty impressive during Microsoft's 2024 summer showcase, we were shocked and disappointed by the news - and this...
Report Take-Two Tried To Purchase Xbox's Cancelled Perfect Dark Reboot
But the talks collapsed
Last week, we reported how one of the teams behind Xbox's now-cancelled Perfect Dark reboot, Crystal Dynamics, had suffered job losses as a result of "evolving business conditions", and now a new report from Bloomberg has shed a bit more light on what's been happening - both at the studio and with the
News Perfect Dark Actor Calls On Fans To 'Speak Up' And Help The Game Survive
"Agent Dark doesn’t give up & neither should any of you"
Around this time last year, the actor for Joanna Dark in the Perfect Dark reboot was revealed as Alix Wilton Regan, and she mentioned at the time how she was "crazy excited" to play the role in The Initiative's debut title. Of course, it's now been cancelled this week, and she's returned to...
News Perfect Dark Developer Responds To 'Big Controversy' Over 2024 Gameplay Trailer
"It's annoying me, so I wanted to say something."
Earlier today, we highlighted a claim that the 2024 Perfect Dark gameplay trailer wasn't "indicative" of its overall progress, with a suggestion that it was "basically fake". Now, one of the trailer's developers has responded to this. Taking to social media earlier today, former Perfect Dark level...
News Perfect Dark Gameplay Trailer Wasn't 'Indicative' Of Its Progress, Claims Reporter
Update: PD developer responds
The most surprising news to come out of yesterday's Xbox layoffs was that Perfect Dark was being cancelled and The Initiative (the studio developing it) was being shut down. After all, we finally got a proper look at the title during last year's Xbox Games Showcase, and as mentioned at the time, we thought it looked...
News Two More Xbox Games Are Being Cancelled, Including Perfect Dark
The Initiative has been shut down as a result
News about the Xbox layoffs continues to trickle in today, and these latest reports have left us pretty speechless - they say that both a new ZeniMax MMORPG and the Perfect Dark reboot (!) have now been cancelled. The ZeniMax game was being made by the Elder Scrolls Online team, and Bloomberg's Jason...
Talking Point 25 Years On, What Do You Think Of The 'Perfect Dark' Franchise?
Amazing? A missed opportunity? Come tell us!
Believe it or not, it's been 25 years this month since Perfect Dark began its life for the Nintendo 64 on May 22nd, 2000 - and unfortunately it's been a rocky ride since then, with just two games having been released in 25 years. That original game was amazing, of course, and some people still think it...
News Xbox's Perfect Dark Co-Developer Announces Several Layoffs
"We did not make this decision lightly"
One of the major development teams working on Xbox's Perfect Dark reboot has laid off multiple employees this week, the studio has confirmed on social media. Crystal Dynamics, the Tomb Raider developer which has also been drafted in to work with Xbox on Perfect Dark, has let go of 17 workers in total.
News PlayStation's Wolverine Director Now Working On Perfect Dark For Xbox
A perfect switch
This summer, we finally saw what Xbox's Perfect Dark reboot is all about - with the team showing a nice slice of the game during its June showcase. Still, it's likely that this Crystal Dynamics developed title is a ways off yet - and it just got a huge new creative force coming over from PlayStation owner Sony. Per Game File's...
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From The Initiative, a secret agent thriller set in a near-future world.
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