“This team has been through so much along the way.
We started this project before COVID.
We’ve had the pandemic, everybody went work-from-home, we had the Great Resignation.
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In Austin, we had multiple ice storms that shut the electrical grid down for weeks at a time.
We had to boil our water for a while.
The country had an insurrection.
We had important social movements happening across the country.
We had murder hornets,” Smith said.
“The Air Force was talking about aliens at one point.
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We gave everybody Fridays off during the worst part of the pandemic.
We just kept putting the love into it.”
Another major event that happened during Redfall’s development was that studio owner ZeniMax got bought by Microsoft.
Redfall launches May 2 for Xbox Game Pass on console and PC.
Arkane releases in May on Xbox Game Pass for console and PC.
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