Brand new footage from Xbox and Zenimax Online Studios’ canceled sci-fi MMORPG, titled Project Blackbird, has been leaked.
Insider eXtas1stv took to Twitter/X to share a video clip of Xbox and Zenimax Online Studios’ canceled Sci-Fi MMORPG, Project Blackbird. The game was in development for several years up until Microsoft cancelled it last year in 2025, which led to the departure of many Zenimax Online developers, including founder Matt Firor.
Project Blackbird Leaked Footage
The aforementioned leaked footage from Zenimax Online’s Project Blackbird can be seen below.
Back in July, 2025, Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier took to the gaming enthusiast Reset Era forums to corroborate insider SneakersSO’s comment on the cancelled Zenimax Online Studios MMORPG/Looter Shooter. The latter claimed that it was “fucking incredible”, and that it had received some of the best reactions from playtesters for a multiplayer-focused game in years. Though, according to Schreier, it wasn’t just playtesters who came away impressed by the now cancelled title. He mentioned that the general public may have said “not another looter shooter” upon seeing the cancelled game in action. However, he added that it wasn’t just QA testers who came away impressed, and that Microsoft executives themselves were “blown away” by it. He further clarified that this wasn’t a project like Perfect Dark or Everwild, where it was in development hell.
SneakersSO called it one of those situations where a publicly-known game gets cancelled, and there’s a general impression among the fan base that it would’ve turned out great along with finger-pointing toward executives who just didn’t “get it”. As per their sources, the cancelled Zenimax Online Studios MMORPG is one such game. The situation where even Microsoft executives were onboard left a big question mark on the title’s cancellation.
Besides the canceled Project Blackbird, Zemimax Online has worked on The Elder Scrolls Online, Doom, and Fallout 76.
