Rare‘s November 2019-announced original intellectual property Everwild has been canceled amid mass layoffs at Microsoft Gaming. According to developers who worked on the project, via VGC, Everwild has been in development in some form for over 10 years, but struggled to nail down a clear direction, even after a recent reboot. In a February 2025 interview, Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer said that the Everwild development team was making “progress.”
BREAKING: As part of today's cuts, Xbox has canceled the troubled Rare game Everwild, according to people familiar. News on the job cuts is coming in drips — not sure why Xbox didn't announce it all at once — but I'll report what I can as I confirm it.
— Jason Schreier (@jasonschreier.bsky.social) July 2, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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