{"id":857147,"date":"2026-09-22T23:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T23:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/857147\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T23:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T23:46:07","slug":"halo-to-move-under-call-of-duty-publisher-as-xbox-announces-layoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/857147\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Halo\u2019 to move under Call of Duty publisher as Xbox announces layoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"HUCMK54HM5FURNE76TL7DUOPB4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Microsoft is cutting 268 jobs across its Xbox division as part of a sweeping reorganization of its studios, including charging Activision to make the next Halo game.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"34Q74N7XEZCFRPRYZJGTNJPRXU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The cuts affect Halo Studios, other first-party developers, and management and central functions within Xbox, according to an <a href=\"https:\/\/news.xbox.com\/en-us\/2026\/09\/22\/continuing-our-reset\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/news.xbox.com\/en-us\/2026\/09\/22\/continuing-our-reset\/\">announcement<\/a> posted this morning by Matt Booty, Xbox\u2019s chief content officer. The company is now about 75 percent finished with a restructuring announced earlier this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Microsoft is cutting 268 jobs across its Xbox division as part of a sweeping reorganization of its studios,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":857148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[74],"class_list":["post-857147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=857147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/857148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}