Bloomberg reports that Compulsion Games isn't the only Microsoft studio fighting to stay open during the great "Xbox reset" announced last week by new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma.
Double Fine, Ninja Theory, and "several other studios" are at risk of closure, reports the publication, which cited undisclosed sources who are familiar with Microsoft's plans.
Double Fine in particular is "in active negotiations to spin off," Bloomberg says, but job losses are expected even for studios that manage to buy their independence.
Double Fine was founded 26 years ago by former LucasArts developer Tim Schafer, and is best known for Brütal Legend, crowdfunded adventure game Broken Age, and the Psychonauts series, as well as candid documentaries about the gamemaking process. The studio recently released Kiln, a multiplayer party game, and Keeper, a puzzle adventure game about...
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