Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has reportedly been heavily betting on the division’s biggest franchises, including The Elder Scrolls and Fallout, as well as Halo, DOOM, and Wolfenstein. This would suggest that these franchises should get more funding, not less, yet the studios that make them were hit hard by the Xbox layoffs. id Software, for example, maker of DOOM (their latest DLC for the Dark Ages game, Revelations, is out now), was essentially halved and lost most of its coders, which is a shame as the proprietary idTech engine was their trademark and pride. Maybe it’ll be maintained by MachineGames […]
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