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Rare's Canceled Everwild Has Finally Been Revealed with Never-Before-Seen Screenshots Showing the Game's World, UI, and More
Microsoft cut Rare’s Everwild after over five years of development amidst layoffs affecting 9,000 employees, including key Rare staff, revealing a peaceful, combat-free fantasy game.
- Earlier this year, screenshots of Everwild surfaced via a former Rare artist's portfolio and were highlighted by MP1st, showing a version close to its cancellation by Microsoft.
- Earlier this year, Microsoft cancelled Everwild amid company-wide layoffs that affected around 9,000 employees after a turbulent development with leadership changes and reboots.
- The images highlight interface work, notably menus and inventory screens, showing a `favorites` bar, inventory tabs for Seeds, Plants and Mosaics, and graphics options like a field-of-view slider.
- Many senior Everwild developers lost jobs amid the wider cuts, and Gregg Mayles is set to leave Rare Studio after more than 35 years; Rare said the cancellation "rippled through the studio".
- Everwild was designed as a peaceful, non-violent nature game with figments and farming, and shelving it after ten years highlights costs of Microsoft's consolidation strategy.
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Rare's canceled Everwild has finally been revealed with never-before-seen screenshots showing the game's world, UI, and more
The first screenshots of Rare's canceled action-adventure game Everwild have appeared online, giving us a glimpse of the game's progress before it was scrapped by Xbox.
We Just Got A Rare Look At Xbox’s Leaked Game That You'll Never Get To Play
XboxFollowing its abrupt cancellation earlier this year, Rare’s Everwild has briefly reemerged in the form of a few screenshots of what the game could have been. Shared in the online portfolio of one of Everwild’s artists, the screenshots offer a brief glimpse of how the combat-free adventure game could have played, had its development not been one of the many victims of owner Microsoft’s frequent layoffs.The screenshots were first spotted by MP…
Rare's Canceled Xbox Title Everwild Finally Seen In Leaked Screenshots
Earlier this year, Xbox underwent a massive internal shift resulting in a number of projects getting canceled, a great deal of employees being laid off, and at least one studio closure. Among the damage done was the cancelation of Everwild, a third-person fantasy game that underwent a turbulent development cycle before having the plug pulled on it.At the time of its cancelation, we'd only ever seen two trailers of the game. Details of the projec…
Actually Everwild was supposed to follow from Rare to Sea of Thieves, but the project was discontinued this year. Now, however, screenshots have leaked showing the gameplay and interface of the multiplayer game.
Everwild screenshots leak after Microsoft cancellation, and you'd seemingly have been a walking garden centre
Rare's Everwild was one of a number of games Microsoft tossed in the bin as part of wider layoffs earlier this year. It was disappointing, if not a huge surprise given how protracted Everwild's development had been up until its demise, with lots of questions remaining as to what the mysterious ramble through nature would be like to play. Now, some leaked screenshots might offer a bit more of an idea as to some of the stuff you'd have been able t…
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