Industry News / Upcoming Games

[Antimatter]

And another round of layoffs at XBOX:

• 268 roles are being terminated
• Halo is now under Activision
• Halo Studios is moving to a support studio role
• Rare (Sea of Thieves) is now under Activision
• Same with World’s Edge, the studio behind the Age of Empires franchise
• Obsidian is now under Bethesda/ZeniMax
• Playground and Turn 10 are merging into one studio to work on Forza and Fable
• Ninja Theory is closing
• Arkane's status is TBD

https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/xbox-layoffs-update-ninja-theory-acquisitions-fall-through-halo-to-be-given-to-activision-obsidian-joins-bethesda-and-more

 

[O_Bruce]

Obsidian is now under Bethesda/ZeniMax

 

[OrlonKronsteen]

A new ad-related patent has been published by Microsoft earlier this month, called ‘Contextually Aware Management of Interactive Software Application Access’.

Well, that’s just awful. Going back to that discussion here about voting with our wallets. It’s time to stop putting up with this crap.