Hi-Fi Rush fans mourn studio closure despite critical acclaim and millions of players: "what hope is there for anyone?"
May. 8, 2024Hi-Fi Rush’s story offers an added touch of irony
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Fans are paying tribute to Hi-Fi Rush, after developer Tango Gameworks was closed byMicrosoftwith immediate effect yesterday.
May 7 brought the disastrous news thatMicrosoft was shutting down Tango Gameworks, as well as three other Bethesda-owned studios, immediately. This came a year afterXbox executives celebrating Hi-Fi Rush as a “breakout hit"for the platform, and so fans understandably wanted to know what had changed to put a lot of people out of work.
Today, Hi-Fi Rush players are coming together to celebrate Tango Gameworks' action game. Just below, for example, you can see a handful of incredible artworks from fans on Twitter showing just how much Hi-Fi Rush meant to them, and how it inspired them to create the pieces we’re now seeing.
Others, meanwhile, are pointing out the painful irony of Tango Gameworks being shuttered given Hi-Fi Rush’s very anti-corporate storyline. Protagonist Chai and company set out to take down corporate overlords making live miserable for everyone, and the message Tango’s game wholeheartedly bears is one of not trusting corporations.
Marvel’s Blade and Deathloop director says Microsoft’s closure of sister studio Arkane Austin is a “f***ing gut stab.”
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