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Montreal game studio, maker of We Happy Few and South of Midnight.
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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Microsoft's latest Xbox restructure is mostly a change of which publisher owns which franchise. The teams involved land in four different places, depending on whether a home was found for the games, the people, both or neither.
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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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