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While several Xbox studios regained independence or found new owners yesterday, Arkane's staff must negotiate their own future
📰 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
👤 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
🕒 2026-07-07 20:27:31
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Xbox宣布分拆五家工作室并裁员3200人，其中1600人立即被裁，另有1600人将在未来财年被裁。Xbox因2010年代过度扩张的收购策略导致多次失败，目前尚未出现工作室关闭情况。
部分工作室如Double Fine和Compulsion获得微软资金独立，Ninja Theory和Undead Labs被出售，Arkane仍在谈判未来。
Yesterday, Xbox announced that they were
spinning off five major studios in the course of the latest round of "historic" restructuring
, with 1600 jobs instantly chopped and 1600 more layoffs to follow over the next financial year. It's the latest in a string of failures on the part of Xbox leadership, who have repeatedly butchered the division after an evidently overambitious acquisition spree that
dates back to the 2010s
. It has, at least, not yet resulted in any outright studio closures.
Double Fine and Compulsion are going indie again with a little funding from Microsoft, keeping ownership of their games. Ninja Theory and Undead Labs have been sold to unnamed new owners. And then there's
Dishonored
and
Marvel's Blade
developers Arkane, whose fate is still being negotiated.
Read more
spinning off five major studios in the course of the latest round of "historic" restructuring
, with 1600 jobs instantly chopped and 1600 more layoffs to follow over the next financial year. It's the latest in a string of failures on the part of Xbox leadership, who have repeatedly butchered the division after an evidently overambitious acquisition spree that
dates back to the 2010s
. It has, at least, not yet resulted in any outright studio closures.
Double Fine and Compulsion are going indie again with a little funding from Microsoft, keeping ownership of their games. Ninja Theory and Undead Labs have been sold to unnamed new owners. And then there's
Dishonored
and
Marvel's Blade
developers Arkane, whose fate is still being negotiated.
Read more