Arkane has been a Microsoft studio for almost two years now, but in that time they haven’t launched a new game. The upcoming Redfall will be their first Xbox title and of course it will be launched directly to Game Pass on the day of the premiere.
Of course, this brings many advantages, but if you ask the head of the studio Harvey Smith, it is actually quite scary as many more players than before are expected in an extremely short time. In an interview with GamesRadar he says:
“I feel like with Xbox Game Pass, the potential is here for us to say: this is Arkane, and these are our creative values - we can expose a lot of people to the way that we make games. I hope we can turn people onto what we do: deep world creation, environmental storytelling, the emergent results of combat and your powers, and creating lovingly crafted worlds with a real sense of history and character.”
Redfall is expected to be released in the first six months of the year, then we’ll see if Arkane can handle the onslaught or not.
