Just hours after Kotaku broke the news of the game’s troubles and possible cancellation, Microsoft made it official: Scalebound, the Xbox exclusive from vaunted Japanese studio PlatinumGames and the creator of Devil May Cry, is dead. Eurogamer also reported the cancellation prior to the Xbox-maker’s official notice and offered a few more details from its sources. The relationship between Microsoft and Platinum had deteriorated over the last several months, the report noted, as an increasingly overworked management team were forced to take a month off and the project fell further behind schedule. According to Eurogamer’s sources, the decision to put Scalebound down was made before 2016 was over.