{"id":1014912,"date":"2026-06-16T11:07:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T05:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1014912"},"modified":"2026-06-16T11:07:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T05:37:26","slug":"studios-in-microsofts-xbox-division-brace-for-closures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/16\/studios-in-microsofts-xbox-division-brace-for-closures\/","title":{"rendered":"Studios in Microsoft\u2019s Xbox Division Brace for Closures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) &#8212; Several studios in Microsoft Corp.\u2019s Xbox gaming division, including Montreal-based Compulsion Games and San Francisco-based Double Fine, are in active negotiations to spin off as they try to thwart closure, according to people familiar with the company\u2019s plans.<\/p>\n<p>Cambridge, England-based Ninja Theory, the maker of Hellblade, is also in conversations with Xbox, as are several other studios across the portfolio that are at risk of being shuttered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) &#8212; Several studios in Microsoft Corp.\u2019s Xbox gaming division, including Montreal-based Compulsion Games and San Francisco-based Double Fine, are in active negotiations to spin off as they try to thwart closure, according to people familiar with the company\u2019s plans. Cambridge, England-based Ninja Theory, the maker of Hellblade, is also in conversations with Xbox, as are several other studios across the portfolio that are at risk of being shuttered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1014912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1014912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1014913,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014912\/revisions\/1014913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}