Drive-by shooting at inXile’s Tustin office injures no one as police arrest a suspect
A gunman opened fire on the Tustin, California building used by Xbox-owned inXile Entertainment around 1:13 p.m. on Nov. 11. Tustin police described the incident as a drive-by shooting on their official Facebook account and said extensive crime scene processing followed, with detectives immediately working to identify and locate a suspect. A suspect was taken into custody on the morning of Nov. 13. Aftermath later confirmed those details with Tustin police, who said the investigation remains ongoing.
inXile Entertainment confirmed that no developers were hurt. The studio had not addressed the shooting on social media but gave a statement to Aftermath and Kotaku: it is relieved no one was injured at the office, is focused on supporting its team, and is working closely with law enforcement.
The RPG developer was founded by Interplay’s Brian Fargo in 2002 and acquired by Xbox Game Studios less than two years before it moved into the Tustin studio in 2020. It is known for the Wasteland series, The Bard’s Tale 4: Barrows Deep, and Torment: Tides of Numenera. Its last released game, Wasteland 3, came out in 2020. Microsoft still owns the studio, which is working on Clockwork Revolution; Polygon reported the shooting has not affected that game’s 2027 release window on PC and Xbox Series X, and that the people working on it at the studio are safe.
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