Microsoft Closes Vancouver Studio

Microsoft has confirmed that it's closed it's Vancouver studio which was focused on a AAA Kinect Shooter, and was also responsible for the Free-to-play game, Microsoft Flight. All of the employees were laid off.

The game development scene in BC seems to have collapsed. Along with this there have been layoffs this year at Rockstar Vancouver, Capcom Vancouver and EA Vancouver. I think I might be missing one as well.

Sheesh, that really sucks. For some odd reason I really enjoy Microsoft Flight, and I was looking forward to what it would become.

Game developers love Ontario.

I wonder if they had a sales target on steam during the summer sale.

I enjoyed Flight, I really did, but there just wasn't enough there and I don't think the team was big enough to give people what they wanted.

If you've played Flight Simulator X, you know Flight had some pretty big shoes to fill. I certainly realize they were going for something different, more concentrated and focused missions, but the free-to-play model and trickling out DLC seems like a bad choice for the spiritual successor to a game that let you fly around the world out of the box.

I feel like there is one of these posts every month

Wow, Vancouver sounds like it's becoming a ghost town with all of these studios that have been shuttered.