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Coverage under the video game studios tag centers on major shifts inside Xbox and its first-party development groups. A confirmed round of 268 job cuts, the transfer of the next Halo to Activision, and the reassignment of several studios to larger publishing arms illustrate how consolidation and restructuring are reshaping who makes which games. Discussion also touches the wider fall release calendar, including World of Warcraft, Fire Emblem, and Ace Combat, showing that studio news rarely happens in isolation from the games players are actually following.
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    Xbox Cuts 268 Jobs as Activision Takes Over Halo in Major Studio Reshuffle

    Polygon's Oli Welsh opened his weekly Patch Notes column on September 27 by praising the fall release season. For a stretch of six to eight weeks, he wrote, the job is mostly about new games. He's in the World of Warcraft: Forever beta and has two review games on the go. His colleagues can't...