… At this year's GDC Festival of Gaming , Meta's director of games Chris Pruett discussed how the company continues to invest in VR despite studio closures and layoffs. …
… In Rogers' defense, he's absolutely correct that the entire industry is in a bad state right now, with layoffs, closures, and cancellations taking a toll on studios of all sizes . …
… These changes are expected to be part of a wider restructuring at Xbox, which has already involved several studio closures in recent years. KitGuru Says: It is disappointing to see more studio closures happening, but the cost of running even small studios has ballooned dramatically at this point. …
… Vertigo Studios Amsterdam was founded by the same people who founded Guerrilla Games, the developer behind Horizon Zero Dawn . The Rotterdam studio, meanwhile, worked on the VR zombie survival franchise Arizona Sunshine . …
A PlayStation 5 version of the new Gears of War game was in development and had been planned for release until Sharma changed tack, according to the people familiar with Xbox strategy. Retailers had been preparing to ope…
After a bit of a break, I'm back with another one of these. I tried something a bit different with the formatting this time, so hopefully it'll read better on mobile now (feedback's obviously welcome so long as you're no…
… The company’s head of Xbox Game Studios, Craig Duncan, and the Xbox Game Studios chief of staff, Louise O’Connor, also announced that they will be leaving, The Game Business reported. …
… Original Story: This weekend has been awash with rumours about incoming Xbox studio closures , as new leadership wrestles with an almighty mess. …
… Bloomberg is reporting that Compulsion, Double Fine, Ninja Theory, and "several other studios" have started negotiations with Microsoft to spin off their companies from Xbox Studios and avert full studio closures. Potentially, this would give the studios a chance to buy out
… "Xbox is also planning to significantly slash budgets for marketing and some other areas of the business, the people said." In a follow-up article, The Verge mentioned that a studio closure or "changes to the Xbox studio lineup" could be involved in the cuts according to their own sources. …
