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It continues: “Thank you for great games from your friends at New Blood.

We hate money.”

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However, they soon realized that this wasn’t the message they wanted to send.

“I was like, ‘Wait a second.

Sure, that would probably get us a lot of publicity.

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And it would be funny.

But why would we make it about them?

It’s not about them,'” Oshry explains.

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“‘It’s about the people, our friends that got laid off.

Let’s do a tribute to all our friends at studios that got laid off.'”

I think that’s way cooler than just throwing up an ad for one of our games."

Mindseye

Microsoftconfirmed it was shutting down Redfall studio Arkane Austin and Hi-Fi Rush developer Tango Gameworks just last month.

Resident Evil’s creator and the founder of Tango,Shinji Mikami, called the news “sad.”

Last month also sawindustry anger over GTA 6 publisher’s closure of two acclaimed studios.

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