{"id":14490,"date":"2026-09-22T18:51:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T15:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/?p=14490"},"modified":"2026-09-22T19:46:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T16:16:19","slug":"halo-moves-to-activision-amid-latest-round-of-xbox-job-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/2026\/09\/22\/halo-moves-to-activision-amid-latest-round-of-xbox-job-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Halo Moves To Activision Amid Latest Round Of Xbox Job Cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/halo-moves-to-activision-amid-latest-round-of-xbox-job-cuts.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<hr class=\"preferredSourceCTA-module-scss-module__sCL6Nq__divider\" \/><span class=\"content-module-scss-module__RI8h6a__content\" data-test=\"content\"><\/p>\n<p>With the folks over at PlayStation getting major flak of late for a slew of mind boggling decisions \u2014 from committing to a disc-free future, to parting ways with longtime collaborator Hideo Kojima, to hiking console prices while reminding players their games aren&#8217;t truly their own \u2014 now could&#8217;ve been a great time for Xbox to bank some goodwill from gamers. But despite a ray of light coming in the form of Microsoft giving Kojima Productions a new home just last week, today has brought more seismic \u2014 and not altogether cheery \u2014 gaming news our way.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"content-module-scss-module__RI8h6a__content\" data-test=\"content\"><\/p>\n<p>In a memo titled &#8216;Continuing Our Reset&#8217;, Xbox Chief Content Officer and Executive Vice President Matt Booty revealed that the company will be &#8220;eliminating 268 roles across Halo Studios, other first-party studios, and the XGS management and central functions layer.&#8221; Amid the layoffs \u2014 which leave <em>Hellblade<\/em> devs Ninja Theory facing closure and both <em>Sea Of Thieves<\/em>&#8216; Rare and <em>Age Of Empires<\/em>&#8216; World&#8217;s Edge under Activision&#8217;s care \u2014 is news that the Halo franchise will now be led entirely by Call Of Duty developers Activision Blizzard, who are assembling &#8216;a new, purpose-built team&#8217; to shape the franchise&#8217;s future.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"content-module-scss-module__RI8h6a__content\" data-test=\"content\"><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re thrilled to welcome Halo, Rare, and World\u2019s Edge to Activision,\u201d said Activision president Rob Kostich in a statement accompanying today&#8217;s news. \u201cIt\u2019s an honor and a responsibility that we do not take lightly. \u202fThese teams and their games have inspired fans around the world for decades. For Halo, our goal is clear: make the greatest Halo game ever, worthy of its universe and legacy, while staying true to what made players love it in the first place. \u202fIt is a bold ambition, one that this franchise deserves. We have already begun assembling a purpose-built team, unique in capability and talent, ready and excited to deliver this next chapter with the community. To the World\u2019s Edge and Rare teams, we can\u2019t wait to get to work together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"content-module-scss-module__RI8h6a__content\" data-test=\"content\"><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s announcements come in the aftermath of July&#8217;s announcement that Xbox has committed to axing 3,600 jobs as part of a major company restructure. What this will all eventually mean for the future of Halo, the future of Xbox, and the future of its players very much remains to be seen at this point. But 25 years after combat evolved with the first <em>Halo<\/em>, so now it seems that Halo itself \u2014 and the industry at large \u2014 must evolve, too.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the folks over at PlayStation getting major flak of late for a slew of mind boggling decisions \u2014 from committing to a disc-free future, to parting ways with longtime collaborator Hideo Kojima, to hiking console prices while reminding players their games aren&#8217;t truly their own \u2014 now could&#8217;ve been a great time for Xbox [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-47"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14492,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14490\/revisions\/14492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}