Microsoft-owned Activision has introduced Elsewhere Leisure a brand new, Warsaw-based studio.
With extra sources primarily based within the US, the interior, standalone studio consists of a group of builders whose credit embrace The Final of Us, Uncharted, The Witcher, Cyberpunk, Future, Tom Clancy’s The Division, and Far Cry.
The studio is engaged on a brand new AAA narrative-based franchise, and the crew has been given full entry to Activision’s sources and instruments on account of growing manufacturing and improvement. Elsewhere can also be hiring.
It appears a bit odd to announce a brand new studio, not to mention kind one, contemplating that simply final week, Microsoft shut down 4 studios: Tango Gameworks, Arcane Austin, Alpha Canine Video games, and Roundhouse Video games – and let’s not overlook the 1,900 staffers it let go from its online game division earlier this 12 months.
Nevertheless, it’s value noting that Activision principally operates individually from Microsoft and has because the merger was finalized.
Courtroom paperwork (web page 28, line 20) from the FTC vs Microsoft go well with state that the corporate “intends to function Activision just like current acquisitions” and that its “artistic operations will stay separate and proceed to run because it did pre-merger.”
Regardless of this, it’s nonetheless a Microsoft-owned firm, in any case, so it has the ultimate say.