Perfect Dark Gaming News
Perfect Dark was a planned reboot of the classic shooter series, developed by Xbox’s The Initiative studio.
The game was ultimately cancelled in 2025, following years of development, and its developer shut down by parent Microsoft.
Perfect Dark News
Tickets are on sale now for VGC Live in Glasgow
VGC takes to the stage for the first time ever at one of Glasgow's most historic venues
Take-Two hires former Perfect Dark reboot bosses to form a new 2K studio
It was briefly hoped that 2K could revive the cancelled Perfect Dark project, but this didn't come to pass
Concept art and gameplay information from Xbox’s cancelled Perfect Dark game has been shared
The game was announced in 2020 but was officially cancelled in July
Take-Two talks ‘to save Xbox’s Perfect Dark reboot’ reportedly collapsed
The publisher could have rescued the canceled Xbox game, it's claimed
Xbox has cancelled its Perfect Dark reboot and closed its developer
The Initiative will be closed as part of Microsoft layoffs
US PS5 sales are pacing ahead of PS4, while Xbox Series lags behind Xbox One
But the US saw a 25% drop in video game hardware spend last year
PlayStation’s Wolverine director has taken over Xbox’s Perfect Dark
Ratchet & Clank leads will now helm Insomniac's Marvel title
Perfect Dark gets first gameplay trailer, but doesn’t yet have a launch window
Agent Joanna Dark is caught in the middle of a near future war over advanced technology
Xbox’s Perfect Dark reboot is in ‘a very rough state’, it’s claimed
The project was announced with a CG trailer in 2020
Tomb Raider studio Crystal Dynamics has confirmed a round of layoffs
Marketing and IT employees impacted by “internal restructuring”
Perfect Dark is reportedly 2-3 years away and could be released episodically
Microsoft has been working on the franchise reboot since 2018