Last week saw brutal layoffs at the Windows and Xbox publisher Microsoft, with the company letting over 9,000 people go. Its Xbox division was impacted significantly by the cuts, with Rare's Everwild game cancelled, Perfect Dark scrapped as well, and its developer The Initiative shuttered. Since then, it's come out that multiple other studios were affected as well — and according to a new report, Halo Studios (formerly 343 Industries) was one of them.
The news comes from an Engadget report in which it's said a Halo Studios developer spoke with the outlet, stating that "at least five employees" were let go from the Halo team as part of Microsoft's cuts. Notably, the studio was previously "hit hard" by a similarly large wave of Microsoft layoffs in 2023.
