Earlier this week, police in the city of Tustin, California received a report of a drive-by shooting at Flight at Tustin Legacy, the office campus that plays host to Wasteland and Clockwork Revolution developer inXile, among other businesses. Fortunately, no one was hurt, but inXile is now “working closely” with local authorities amid an ongoing investigation.
After receiving an anonymous tip, Aftermath reached out to Tustin police, who confirmed reports of a shooting and noted that a suspect has been taken into custody.
“Officers got there [on November 11],” Sergeant Christopher Peterson told Aftermath. “They responded to a report of a drive-by shooting there. Located multiple shell casings. Nobody was hurt. Processed the crime scene, and then sometime [Friday] morning, a little before 11 [AM], they took a suspect into custody. And the investigation is still kind of ongoing as to where and why.”
In a statement to Aftermath, an inXile spokesperson confirmed that the Microsoft-owned studio’s staff is unharmed.
“We’re relieved that no one was hurt at our inXile office,” the spokesperson said. “Our focus is on supporting our team, and we are working closely with law enforcement as they investigate.”
Currently inXile’s long-in-development steampunk role-playing game Clockwork Revolution is set to come out next year. It is among the small handful of Microsoft-owned studios to have so far been spared amid multiple rounds of mass layoffs, but that’s obviously subject to change depending on the game’s success. At the very least, though, its staff remains safe and sound after a scare that hit far too close to home.
