inXile and Tango’s Next Games Details Pop Up in New Rumors
A few new rumors have surfaced today, sharing details on the next games in development at inXile Entertainment and Tango GameWorks, both of which are now under Microsoft's umbrella.
inXile Entertainment, as you'll likely remember, was acquired by Microsoft alongside fellow RPG-making company Obsidian Entertainment in late 2018. The studio released Wasteland 3 in August 2020, openly stating that Microsoft's backing allowed them to delay the game and polish it far more than what they could have otherwise done on their own. The game turned out to be a success, having registered over two million players by the end of 2021.
Even before the release of Wasteland 3, however, inXile founder and CEO Brian Fargo confirmed the studio had begun working on a next-generation RPG powered by Epic's Unreal Engine 5. A few months later, he added that a second project was just starting its own pre-production phase.
One of the projects was later rumored to be a Steampunk first-person RPG led by some former developers of Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura, the foremost example of a Steampunk roleplaying game. The Arcanum IP is currently owned by Activision Blizzard, and today Reddit user cat__statue found the following mention on the LinkedIn profile of a former inXile Game Designer:
I provided research and setting development for an upcoming video game. [Established IP, Project still under NDA].
That sparked rumors that the inXile game could be an official sequel to Arcanum. However, that is unlikely, as the Activision Blizzard deal isn't closed yet and the game has been in development for years. The studio has surely worked on its own Steampunk universe and would have to retrofit everything at this point. It's far more likely that the
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