LogInRaphael Colantonio spoke up after Xbox had shut down Arkane Austin.
Image credit: Arkane Austin, Redfall
After Xbox decided to shut down a few studios, including the developers behind Hi-Fi Rush and Redfall, a wave of backlash struck the company, with creators, reporters, and bloggers criticizing its actions.
The founder of Arkane Studios didn't sit idle as well. Raphael Colantonio, who left the company back in 2017, took to Twitter and called Microsoft "short-sighted".
"Emotions aside (future tweet), MS proves to be short-sighted in that instance, they have infinite money and could have waited for Arkane Austin to do it again, which they would have. It will cost valuable Gamer Credits to MS and reinforce the evil corp image. Bad move. Baffling," wrote Colantonio.
Speaking of Colantonio, the developer has been running his own indie studio, Wolfeye, for several years. The studio released its first game, the action RPG Weird West, in early 2022, and is currently working on a second project set in a retrofuturism setting.
The closure of Arkane Austin was also criticized by one of Arkane's current executives, Dinga Bakaba, who called it a "gut stab" and expressed disappointment in the way corporations treated their developers.
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