Austin studio, while Colantonio stayed with the Lyon studio to help transition it to new management. Arkane assisted other ZeniMax studios as they finished off support for Dishonored 2 and Prey; these included supporting Bethesda Game Studios for Fallout 76, and MachineGames in level design for Wolfenstein: Youngblood and Wolfenstein: Cyberpilot. During Bethesda's E3 2019 press conference, Arkane Lyon unveiled its next game, Deathloop, a science-fiction based first-person shooter with the player-character stuck in a time loop. 2020s ZeniMax Media was acquired by Microsoft for in March 2021 and became part of Xbox Game Studios. Following the release of Deathloop, Romuald Capron, head of Arkane Lyon for seventeen years, announced in October 2021 he was stepping down and with Dinga Bakaba, Sébastien Mitton, Hugues Tardif and Morgan Barbe left in charge of managing the studio. Capron stated that he felt "the need to try something new" and "my goal is to keep on helping video game companies, and others, to make their creative vision become a reality, since that’s what I love to do". Bakaba was named as the studio head for Arkane Lyon in November 2021. Games developed In addition to developing with third-party game engines, such as using CryEngine for Prey, the studio has also developed their own Void Engine based on a heavily modified version of the id Tech 5 Engine, which they used for Dishonored 2 and Deathloop. According to Dishonored 2s art director Sébastien Mitton, Void uses about 20% of id Tech 5, the rest rewritten to have larger and denser maps. Cancelled games References External links 2010 mergers and acquisitions Companies based in Lyon French companies established in 1999 Video game companies established in 1999 Video game companies of France Video game development companies ZeniMax Media