Ring in the New Year with a Reborn Tango Gameworks Inc | Push Square
To avoid becoming jaded, we are choosing to think this year will be different for the video game industry. Never mind that the tens of thousands of layoffs in development and publishing last year are likely to have ongoing and systemic implications for many more to come. We want to focus on a single silver lining and remain positive: Hi-Fi Rush developer Tango Gameworks has risen from the flames like a phoenix and, under KRAFTON, will live again, this time as Tango Gameworks Inc.
After Tango was unceremoniously axed by Xbox alongside other Bethesda studios, Korean publisher KRAFTON (of PUBG fame) worked behind the scenes to preserve the Tokyo-based team. In a year filled with stories of studio closures, redundancies, and furloughs, this was one of the few we covered that achieved something like a positive outcome.
On X, Tango announced the happy news, blessing the timeline with some positivity. KRAFTON seemingly doesn't expect Hi-Fi Rush 2 even to turn a profit, keeping the team alive for the love of the game and its future promise, presumably. You love to see it.
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Sombre look at the developers last day
Will 2025 be different for the games industry, or more of the same? There will certainly be games, but probably less studios, by the time all is said and done. Remain calm in the comments section below.
Khayl Adam is Push Square's roving Australian correspondent, a reporter tasked with scouring the internet for the richest, most succulent PlayStation stories. With six years of experience as a freelance journalist and mercenary wordsmith, RPGs are his first great love, but strategy and tactics games are a close second, genres in which he is only too happy to specialize.
All industries have their ups and downs and a downturn was always on the cards after the blip that was Covid.
However, this was a surprising and heart warming read. Hopefully the newly reformed Tango team can defy the odds and make Hi-Fi Rush 2 the success the first game deserved to
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