Microsoft Sells Arkane Studios As Gaming Industry Faces Massive Layoffs

Dishonored and Marvel's Blade developer Arkane Studios has attracted interest from a number of publishers, including Ubisoft.

At least three bids for Arkane Studios. Ubisoft is one of multiple companies to submit a bid for Dishonored team Arkane Studios, as Microsoft looks to offload the developer in the coming weeks. [···]

Following the September release of Control Resonant , business is boomin' for developer Remedy Entertainment. The studio reported that its third-quarter revenue surged 226% to €39.6 million / $44.3 [···]

The Borderlands franchise has reached a new sales milestone, as developer Gearbox Software announced that Borderlands 4 had pushed the series over the 100 million units sold mark. Celebrating the [···]

Doom developer id Software was among the numerous Microsoft-owned game studios that cut staff recently as part of the big Xbox 'reset.' What's the vibe like internally at the studio in the wake [···]

Fans have speculated on which studio is leading the development of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake since it was first announced, and a new Ask the Developer feature from Nintendo appears [···]

Nagoshi Studio, the studio formed by Yakuza creator Toshiro Nagoshi at NetEase, has been shut down before it even released its first game. According to Gematsu , shareholders officially dissolved [···]

[We] found it necessary to lay off a significant number of employees in order to ensure a sustainable future for our studio

Studio was 'officially dissolved by a shareholders' resolution' on October 31, 2026

The game will reportedly not be live-service, nor will it be Days Gone 2

But the studio says it is 'not going down without a fight'.