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Blizzard's unannounced survival game has been cancelled following today's layoffs at Activision Blizzard. Microsoft Gaming head Phil Spencer announced in a memo that 1900 Activision Blizzard, Bethesda and Xbox employees will leave the company.
Blizzard president Mike Ybarra is also leaving Microsoft just months after saying he will stay at the company for the foreseeable future.
The survival game codenamed Odyssey which was in development for many, many years, was nowhere near being done according to reliable Jason Schreier, suggesting that it may suffered in development hell.
Microsoft's studios president Matt Booty revealed that Blizzard will now shift some of the people who worked on Odyssey to several other promising projects, which are currently in early stages of development.
The details about the cancelled game are pretty much non-existent since Blizzard didn't talk about it much apart from announcing a couple of concept art pieces, which you can see in the header image above.
Certain rumours, from a couple of months ago suggested that the game was revamped at least three times during its development and that it won't be ready for many, many years. Apparently, Blizzard worried that its survival crafting focus would be outdated by the time the game released.
These Microsoft cuts follow the recently announced layoffs at video game development companies like Riot, Unity and Twitch. industry giants like Sony are also expected to trim their workforce as leaked in the Insomniac files a couple of months ago.
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