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Microsoft builds out its game dev talent

Microsoft is aggressively increasing its in house game development work and is adding five new game development teams through acquisition and is also founding a new development studio called the Initiative, which will be based in Santa Monica and led by Darrell Gallagher. Gallagher told Dean Takahashi in a VentureBeat interview just about nothing other than that his job is to ...

Kathleen Maher

Microsoft is aggressively increasing its in house game development work and is adding five new game development teams through acquisition and is also founding a new development studio called the Initiative, which will be based in Santa Monica and led by Darrell Gallagher. Gallagher told Dean Takahashi in a VentureBeat interview just about nothing other than that his job is to build new content and create new worlds. Along those lines, Microsoft has acquired Playground Games, which is based in the UK. In the announcement Microsoft cited Playground’s  experience with open worlds and has said they’ll be putting this talent to
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