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Mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and internal reorganisations that change which company owns or operates a game studio and its franchises.
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'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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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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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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