Updated:

Jan 19, 2023 1:05 am

Posted:

Jan 19, 2023 12:52 am

After today's announcement that Microsoft volition laic disconnected 10,000 people, details connected however interior restructuring volition deed its gaming divisions proceed to emerge, with Halo Infinite's 343 Industries among the studios impacted.

According to Bloomberg, Joseph Staten, a Halo seasoned who began his vocation with Bungie successful 1998, volition modulation from his Halo Infinite originative manager relation and rejoin Xbox's publishing division. Staten joined the squad astatine 343 Industries successful 2020 arsenic the run task pb connected Halo Infinite and aboriginal saw a rubric alteration to Head of Creative.

Bloomberg's study includes an email from 343 Industries caput Pierre Hintze, who explained the workplace "made the hard determination to restructure" and that enactment for Halo Infinite's unrecorded work features volition continue. Details connected Staten's caller relation and the nonstop grade of interaction astatine 343 Industries stay unclear for now.

Staten's credits see a agelong past with the Halo series, starting with his relation arsenic the cinematic manager connected Combat Evolved, Halo 2, and Halo 3. His enactment connected the Halo beingness includes authoring immoderate of its novelizations, and the workplace pb besides served arsenic lead writer connected Bungie's sci-fi shooter, Destiny. He departed his relation connected the MMO and aboriginal rejoined Microsoft successful 2014.

The Halo workplace is among galore impacted by Microsoft's layoffs, including Gears of War studio, The Coalition, and the much recently acquired Bethesda. Microsoft's blog notes that cuts interaction 5% of its workforce. That's successful summation to the 1,000 employees fto spell successful October 2022.

As cuts and restructuring widen into its crippled studios, Microsoft is inactive moving guardant with acquisitions. A twelvemonth agone today, the institution announced it would buy Activision Blizzard for a record-breaking $68.7 billion. That deal aboriginal came nether occurrence by regulatory bodies, similar the US Federal Trade Commission, with investigations ongoing.

Andrea Shearon is simply a freelance contributor for IGN covering games and entertainment. She's worn respective hats implicit her seven-year vocation successful the games industry, with bylines implicit astatine Fanbyte, USA Today's FTW, TheGamer, VG247, and RPG Site. Find her connected Twitter (@Maajora) oregon the Materia Possessions podcast chatting astir FFXIV, RPGs, and immoderate bid involving elephantine robots.