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Video game publisher and developer known for franchises like The Elder Scrolls and Fallout, owned by Microsoft since its ZeniMax acquisition.
Halo development goes to a new team inside Activision, Rare and World's Edge move with it, and Obsidian now reports to Bethesda. Xbox Game Studios keeps a handful of teams and 268 fewer roles.
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The 268 roles Xbox eliminated this week take Microsoft roughly three-quarters of the way through a reduction of up to 3,200. The reorganisation around them makes Activision the home of Halo.
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Matt Booty's memo to Xbox staff moves Halo out of the studio built to make it, folds Rare and World's Edge into Activision, and leaves Ninja Theory in consultation on a proposed closure.
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Microsoft eliminated 268 roles on Tuesday and moved studios under its larger publishers, giving a new Activision team the next Halo while Halo Studios keeps a smaller crew on the games it has already shipped.
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Halo Studios keeps Halo Infinite and Campaign Evolved in market while a new team inside Activision builds the next flagship, and the same reorganisation moves Rare's Sea of Thieves developers and World's Edge under Activision.
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The Xbox reorganization eliminates 268 roles, puts Rare and World's Edge under Activision, and leaves Halo Studios supporting Halo Infinite with a small crew. Announced Xbox cuts this year now reach nearly 1,900.
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Activision picks up Halo, Rare and World's Edge as this week's 268 eliminations take Microsoft's Xbox reset about three-quarters of the way through, a total that Matt Booty's memo counts the sold studios inside.
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Nvidia says developers keep full artistic control over the model that repaints a game's lighting and materials at runtime. The build that leaked through an early-access copy of NBA 2K27 answers to whoever installs the mod.
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Consolidation has left EA, Microsoft and Ubisoft circling legacy brands. The operative question is who still holds authority to approve an unproven project.
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