Overview

• Sackbird Studios announced its establishment as an independent, employee-owned team with multi-year self-funding and no outside investors.
• The studio is building an original game for consoles and PC and plans to share details only when the project is ready.
• Its founding lineup includes former leads and key contributors to The Elder Scrolls Online and core developers from the canceled Project Blackbird.
• The team describes itself as a developer-first environment with a tight, senior roster currently under 10 people.
• Leadership cites Project Blackbird’s cancellation as the catalyst for forming the studio, with Bloomberg previously reporting Blackbird had been in development since 2018.