It's always a big deal when a major videogames publisher cherry-picks another independent studio from the wild, and Microsoft is known for some of the biggest and most controversial purchases in the industry. It swiped Halo from under Apple's nose to make it a timed exclusive for its debut Xbox console, it bought Nintendo's golden boy Rareware, and it dished out megabucks for Lionhead, employing renowned designer Peter Molyneux as creative director of Microsoft Game Studios.
With Arkane Austin no more and Lyon living for who knows how long, the superb Dishonored is in serious danger; Microsoft cannot be trusted.
I love the Dishonored series so much and really want Dishonored 3. Microsoft better not screw this up.
I mean, I think the fans will probably kill Arkane Lyon by cooking up reasons to hate whatever they do next without playing it. I've never seen a game so artificially disliked as Deathloop.
Lol, why don't we just say, we are worried about all studios owned by MS now. They will keep closing studios until they have none left ...🙄
I think it's becoming clear based on matt bootys comments there's no future for any IP that can't sell above 10 million within the launch window. But is also a small game that gives them prestige
/S it's beyond a joke right now
Paul Thurrott in a recent episode commented on the on-going Microsoft fiasco hinting at more job losses and that "there's more to come".
There won't be no more acquiring game publishers from Microsoft in the future . Xbox has to pay Microsoft back. It might take two decades to do that.
There really needs to be a class action lawsuit here. You buy these companies just to put people out of jobs. And it’s not like something happened to derail their plans this WAS the plan. Microsoft has no business in this space at all.
Ninja Theory, Perfect Dark, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, Wolfenstein 3, Dishonored, Prey, Doom, Quake... something tells me that bad things are going to happen to these entities under Microsoft.
The Xbox brand is expanding, as an Xbox mobile game store is opening this coming July where Microsoft will brings its "first-party portfolio."
“Bond adds that they will start on the web”
This will go nowhere.
Nice knowing you Xbox. This is what happens when the house never gets cleaned.
The only this MS is expanding is the amount of feculence it sprays on everyone who just want to enjoy gaming and make games.
The best thing MS can do for the gaming industry is leave and never return.
IGN just got a whole lot more stupid
The only devs the MS should buy are the ones that make games for them mostly.
Grasshopper Manufacture makes multiplatform games mostly and they made more games on Sony and Nintendo systems than MS systems. So they will never go to MS
Insomniac Games only made Sony exclusives and is making their first multiplatform game they will never go to MS.
And if anyone gets Turtle Rock Studios it should be Valve
Whats next, IGN? Nintendo buys Epic and Sony buys Mojang?
i'd rather them build up some new studios
insomniac like their independence if they didn't want to be acquired by sony they certainly won't likely want to be bought up by microsoft.
They should have gone for Bioware.
A big no to the first three, I don't care about the others.