Amidst company-wide layoffs of up to 18,000, Microsoft has announced that it will be shutting down Xbox Entertainment Studios in the coming months.
Studio chief
Nancy Tellem will remain with the company along with exec vp
Jordan Levin and some of the XES team to work on existing projects such as documentary series
Signal to Noise and the
Steven Spielberg-produced
Halo television series. The studio will also continue to work on the upcoming digital series
Halo: Nightfall, which will be released as part of a collector's edition of the Halo video game franchise this fall.
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