Microsoft laid off more than 9,000 employees this week, with so manyXboxprojects affected that we’re still learning more about the scale of all this days later.The Perfect Dark reboot was one of the first projects confirmed to have been canceledthanks to the cuts, but its lead actor is hoping there’s a light at the end of the tunnel, even if that light is a faint one for the time being.
Perfect Darkfans have been looking forward to the reboot ever since rumors that there was one in the works started to circulate in 2018. Now, some fans are trying to come to grips with the reality that, after seven years of waiting, that game is no longer coming. With The Initiative, the studio behind the reboot, seemingly gone too, the odds of the reboot ever seeing the light of day are slim.
They’re not non-existent, though, and some have issued pleas to other publishers in an attempt to get the studio, and hence the reboot, picked up by someone else. Those pleas have been loud enough that Alix Wilton Regan, the actor behind Joanna Dark in the Perfect Dark reboot, has joined the burgeoning campaign to test the waters and see if there’s a publisher out there that might give the unfinished game a second chance.
Joanna Dark’s actor is hopeful the canceled Perfect Dark reboot might still see the light of day
If you want the game to exist in some form, now is the time to make yourself heard
Replying to a Perfect Dark fan wondering whether Sony or Nintendo might be interested in the project if we lived in a nice world, Regan posted, “A lot of people have been reaching out and floating this idea on my timeline, my phone and in my DMs, so I’m just gonna say it: I hope we live in a nice world.” The actor added that Perfect Dark fans need to speak up now if they want to give the reboot any chance of surviving.
While some people have shared Regan’s enthusiasm in the replies, not everyone is on board. One person has highlighted that Microsoft likely owns the Perfect Dark IP, so taking the unfinished game elsewhere might not be an option. Another has questioned why anyone would want The Initiative to continue working on the reboot when it had seven years to make something and wound up with very little to show for it.
Everwild, Perfect Dark, anda new MMORPG from the developers of The Elder Scrolls Onlineall appear to have been casualties of this week’s cuts, but there’s always hope.When Xbox closed down Tango Gameworks last year, we thought we might never get moreHi-Fi Rushever again. Now the studio is back, and we might one day be playing a Hi-Fi Rush 2.
