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Three Xbox studios\u2014Double Fine, Compulsion Games, and Ninja Theory\u2014are currently in danger of closure, with employees able to seek new work as leaders negotiate to try and save what they can, according to a Bloomberg<\/em> report.<\/p>\n Earlier today, we reported that Xbox was preparing to shutter South of Midnight<\/em> developer Compulsion Games, with studio leadership in active negotiations to determine the studio\u2019s fate. Bloomberg<\/em> has since reported that both Psychonauts<\/em> maker Double Fine and Hellblade<\/em> developer Ninja Theory are in similar situations, despite the latter having just revealed a new game for release next year. A potential outcome is that the studios could go independent, though this would likely still result in heavy job losses.<\/p>\n All this comes just days after Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and Microsoft Game Studios head Matt Booty\u00a0published an open email to the company in which the two highlighted numerous difficulties faced by the business, including that it had \u201cover extended\u201d itself in studio acquisitions, and saying the company tried too hard to juggle too many different platform strategies and has \u201cnot adequately funded\u201d its studios to be competitive. According to the email, Xbox has spent $20 billion on studio investments in five years, not including its $69 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard King, while its annual revenue has declined nearly half a billion.<\/p>\n Alongside this email, Bloomberg<\/em> reported that a major wave of layoffs is on the horizon after the end of Microsoft\u2019s fiscal year on June 30. Earlier today, head of Xbox Game Studios Craig Duncan resigned his position.<\/p>\n Xbox has not returned Kotaku<\/em>\u2018s request for comment on the situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Three Xbox studios\u2014Double Fine, Compulsion Games, and Ninja Theory\u2014are currently in danger of closure, with employees able to seek new work as leaders negotiate to try and save what they can, according to a Bloomberg report. Earlier today, we reported that Xbox was preparing to shutter South of Midnight developer Compulsion Games, with studio leadership<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[7116,3235,8540,3213,5580,8541,315],"class_list":{"0":"post-9056","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-latest-news","8":"tag-close","9":"tag-double","10":"tag-fine","11":"tag-ninja","12":"tag-talks","13":"tag-theory","14":"tag-xbox"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}