Rare appears to have become caught up in Microsoft's round of layoffs today, and the developer's long-running project Everwild also seems to have been canceled, according to a new report.
Per VGC, Everwild, which hasn't been heard from in some time (barring a somewhat vague update from Xbox boss Phil Spencer earlier this year), has been shut down. Additionally, employees at Rare are "likely to lose their jobs" (that's VGC's wording, but the publication is citing "people with knowledge of the project").
It's all part of a massive round of layoffs at Microsoft that began earlier today, with Candy Crush studio King and Bethesda's parent company ZeniMax already affected by job cuts. Other studios, like Rare, were widely expected to enter Microsoft's crosshairs as part of these cuts.
Although Everwild is almost certainly one of the victims of this layoff wave, which could see upwards of 9,000 employees losing their jobs, it hasn't been without its own troubles in the past as well.
The game was originally announced all the way back in 2019 with a rather evocative trailer, albeit one that didn't show too much in the way of concrete gameplay.
That would turn out to be a...
