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NEW: In March, Xbox boss Phil Spencer was so impressed by the demo of a Zenimax game codenamed Blackbird that Matt Booty had to tell him to stop playing so the meeting could continue. Yesterday, they canceled it.

Inside one of Xbox's most shocking cancellations: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

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— Jason Schreier (@jasonschreier.bsky.social) 3 July 2025 at 19:52

It's always tempting to glamorize canceled games, but this one came as a huge shock to the hundreds of Zenimax Online Studios employees working on it. I've seen footage of the vertical slice: It was slick and impressive, with a lot of mobility mechanics that looked like a lot of fun

— Jason Schreier (@jasonschreier.bsky.social) 3 July 2025 at 19:54