Arkane Lyon has a few short weeks to find a buyer before it is shut down. According to a report in Le Monde , one of France’s leading newspapers, developers at the French studio are hoping to secure more time to find a buyer before Xbox closes it for good.

As spotted by Gematsu, Xbox acquired Arkane Studios as apart of it acquisition of ZeniMax Media in 2021. In 2024, Xbox shut down sister studio Arkane Austin after its multiplayer vampire shooter Redfall failed to live up to expectations . Two years later, Arkane Lyon became one of the numerous studios marked for divestment or death during Xbox’s cataclysmic reset back in July. Double Fine and Compulsion Games were spun off, Undead Labs has become employee owned , and Ninja Theory has begun letting people go after two attempts to save the studio fell through.…