“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.

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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.

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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.

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Arkane releases in May on Xbox Game Pass for console and PC.

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