{"id":48867,"date":"2024-05-09T11:02:16","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T10:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/hi-fi-rush-is-currently-35-off-from-the-microsoft-store\/"},"modified":"2024-05-09T11:02:16","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T10:02:16","slug":"hi-fi-rush-is-currently-35-off-from-the-microsoft-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/hi-fi-rush-is-currently-35-off-from-the-microsoft-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Hi-Fi Rush Is Currently 35% Off From The Microsoft Store"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Microsoft’s decision to close<\/a> several development studios, such as Tango Gameworks, Arkane Austin, and more, has generally been met with a big thumbs-down online<\/a>. Tango was responsible for break-out hit Hi-Fi Rush in 2023, a game considered one of the best on Xbox in recent years<\/a>, and went on to win a BAFTA for Animation.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Hi-Fi Rush is still available on Xbox Game Pass, or you can purchase it digitally at a discount right now. It’s 35% off via the Microsoft Store<\/a>, down to $19.49 (or equivalent in your region). This is the lowest price we’ve ever seen the game drop to on Xbox.<\/p>\n

Hi-Fi Rush is also a part of the Humble Choice Bundle for May<\/a>, alongside Yakuza Like A Dragon, Steel Rising, and more. You can join Humble Choice for $11.99\/month<\/a> (\u00a38.99\/month for the UK), collecting all these PC games to keep permanently, and you can skip a month or cancel anytime. To top things off, each code included is for Steam.<\/p>\n

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Both developers and fans have shared their disappointment at the studio closures at Microsoft. Announced to staff via email on the morning of May 7, 2024<\/a>. Head of Xbox Game Studios Matt Booty told employees of the studios, which joined Microsoft under Bethesda parent company ZeniMax, the cuts were a result of the “reprioritization of titles and resources.”<\/p>\n

“This is absolutely terrible,” wrote Arkane Lyon director Dinga Bakaba on X\/Twitter<\/a>, whose studio survived the closures and will continue working on Marvel’s Blade<\/a>. “To any executive reading this: friendly reminder that video games are an entertainment and cultural industry, and your business as a corporation is to take care of your artists and entertainers and help them create value for you.”<\/p>\n

Microsoft acquired ZeniMax in 2021 for $7.5 billion<\/a> and with it came Bethesda studios such as Arkane, Tango Gameworks, and Alpha Dog Games. Its acquisition streak reached new heights in 2023 with the $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, which finally went through in October 2023, just six months before it closed these other studios<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Xbox also announced The Elder Scrolls Online<\/a> developer ZeniMax Online Studios would absorb Roundhouse Studios, but the other Bethesda teams would be unaffected. Starfield<\/a> and The Elder Scrolls 6<\/a> developer Bethesda Game Studios, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle<\/a> developer Machine Games, Doom<\/a> developer id Software, and the aforementioned Marvel’s Blade developer Arkane Lyon are all unaffected.<\/p>\n