On July 2, Windows Central obtained an internal email to staff from Xbox Game Studios head Matt Booty. In the email, Booty confirmed that Perfect Dark and other projects were being canceled. He also confirmed that The Initiative, the team behind the Perfect Dark reboot, was being shut down.

M icrosoft is canceling its Perfect Dark and Everwild games as part of sweeping cuts to its Xbox division. Matt Booty, Xbox president of game content and studios, revealed that Microsoft will be closing The Initiative, the studio behind Perfect Dark, in an internal memo to Xbox employees today.

Microsoft has reportedly cancelled Everwild, an in-development game from UK-based Sea of Thieves developer Rare, and potentially other projects amid a round of layoffs that will see the company lose upwards of 9000 employees.