There are already too many games trying to serve this relatively small hardcore audience. And mobile game marketers have already found better ways to reach the players they want to reach.

New Xbox chief strategy officer Matthew Ball says his first task is to rescue its console business – so growing Microsoft’s presence in mobile and PC will have to come later.

The game Steve Desilets and Matt Mocarski were working on is definitely closed, while most staff working on the other US-based game departed months ago, it seems.