Studio creating Phantom Dust For Xbox One Shuts Its Doors

[Dominic Brehetto]

Independent development studio Darkside Games, which was working on the planned reboot of the cult classic Phantom Dust, shut down this afternoon in the wake of news that Microsoft had cancelled their version of the game, Kotaku has learned.

Microsoft, however, says they're still working on the upcoming Xbox One reboot.

"Microsoft partnered with Darkside Game Studios in the development of 'Phantom Dust,' but our working relationship has now ended," a Microsoft spokesperson said. "We have great respect for their studio and their work in the industry. While we do not have anything new to share on 'Phantom Dust' at this time, we can confirm that development of the title continues. We look forward to sharing more details on the game as we get closer to release."

More here at the source (Kotaku).




Xbots seem to love talking about the order but seem strangley quiet about this.

Whens the next xbox exclusive releasing again?

This will be lucky to come out in 2017.

 

[Ronald]

xbot famine continues

no good games coming anytime soon

 

[BasedPrime]

They shoulda been called Greenside game studios in the first place

 

[The G.O.D II]

Struggle thread #34657d64 from a sony stan in the last 24:mjheh:

 

[Dominic Brehetto]

Struggle thread #34657d64 from a sony stan in the last 24:mjheh:

Youve got 26K struggle posts and counting

Whens the last time you left your moms basement. Sure as fukk dont have a social life with all the time you spend on here

 

[The G.O.D II]

Youve got 26K struggle posts and counting

Whens the last time you left your moms basement. Sure as fukk dont have a social life with all the time you spend on here

So much fury I've smacked your emotional dope head so much last year its not even funny anymore. D level sony stan. Nobody knows or cares about anything you have to say, not even the posters you suck off whenever you do decide to pop up around here(and who ironically have right around the same post as me ) This will be my only response so I'll let this thread properly flop

 

[ORDER_66]

Looks like the game got...............................

Phantom Dusted

 

[Dominic Brehetto]

So much fury I've smacked your emotional dope head so much last year its not even funny anymore. D level sony stan. Nobody knows or cares about anything you have to say, not even the posters you suck off whenever you do decide to pop up around here(and who ironically have right around the same post as me ) This will be my only response so I'll let this thread properly flop

26k posts and the only time anybody notices you is when you get laughed out of threads for making some of the dumbest statements anybodies read

 

[HarlemRiverDrive]

Darkside Games is an asset developer. They develop assets and animations, and you can see this In their company bio. They haven't made a single solo game and this is to imply that this was to be their first game.

What I find odd is that there was good reception on what they were doing with the reimagining but they were suddenly...stopped. It could be MS is gonna take the game in a new direction (HoloLens shyt?)

It's a shame to see people bet everything on a single project and get closed. I'm more bummed about people losing work than a fukking game or console stanning (but ay Coli has their priorities.)

My question is where does the game go fr here. Phantom Dust obviously isn't a AAA high budget title (the original game was a $20 budget game) and the Creative Directors of it are still speaking of fit fondly.

Maybe the original team is gonna do it? I mean they're now Grounding Inc. and they did Crimson Dragon (which was okay).

 

[MeachTheMonster]

Darkside Games is an asset developer. They develop assets and animations, and you can see this In their company bio. They haven't made a single solo game and this is to imply that this was to be their first game.

What I find odd is that there was good reception on what they were doing with the reimagining but they were suddenly...stopped. It could be MS is gonna take the game in a new direction (HoloLens shyt?)

It's a shame to see people bet everything on a single project and get closed. I'm more bummed about people losing work than a fukking game or console stanning (but ay Coli has their priorities.)

My question is where does the game go fr here. Phantom Dust obviously isn't a AAA high budget title (the original game was a $20 budget game) and the Creative Directors of it are still speaking of fit fondly.

Maybe the original team is gonna do it? I mean they're now Grounding Inc. and they did Crimson Dragon (which was okay).

They probably just moved the game to a bigger more experienced studio.

 

[HarlemRiverDrive]

They probably just moved the game to a bigger more experienced studio.

Probably.

Phantom Dust is a card-action game and MS probably Sees the successs of Hearthstone and want to do something similar without ruining it. Or something. I mean no one in their right mind was thinking of Phantom Dust as a game to revive from the OG catalogue, cause that game bombed hard. In Japan and the U.S.

There must be some diehard fans of the game in MS and they don't want to see their project get fukked

 

[MeachTheMonster]

Probably.

Phantom Dust is a card-action game and MS probably Sees the successs of Hearthstone and want to do something similar without ruining it. Or something. I mean no one in their right mind was thinking of Phantom Dust as a game to revive from the OG catalogue, cause that game bombed hard. In Japan and the U.S.

There must be some diehard fans of the game in MS and they don't want to see their project get fukked

Yeah there's plenty of die hards. I always hear the game brought up in remake requests, though I never played it myself.

They said they brought it back cause it was a great game and they thought it was before its time, but not necessarily cause they thought it had a huge fanbase. It seems like Phil spencer is a huge fan of the game.

 

[Fatboi1]

 

[CurrencyChase]

I think Xbox strategy this gen was make Halo, Fable, Gears of war and buy exclusives from third party..seems they don't care about creating new games them self.

 

[Rekkapryde]

Looks like the game got...............................

Phantom Dusted