Microsoft forms new team to develop small 'AA' games based on Blizzard IP

News from this site on August 2. In January this year, Microsoft’s game department announced the layoff of 1,900 people. A large number of Blizzard employees including President Mike Ybarra resigned. At the same time, an unnamed survival game that had been developed for many years was cancelled. However, the company Subsequently, it began to recruit new people to develop another unannounced game. Windows Central reports today that Microsoft has formed a new team with Blizzard to develop a small "AA" game. It is said that the new team is mainly composed of former King team members, and this small game is mainly based on Blizzard's existing game IP, such as "Overwatch", "Warcraft", "StarCraft", etc. Since the new team is mostly made up of former King developers, Windows Central theorizes that the new game could be a mobile game, but could also be aimed at other platforms. (Note from this site: King is a mobile game development studio under Activision Blizzard, and the representative work "Candy Crush Saga" accounts for nearly half of the revenue)

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▲ "Sea of ​​Thieves", picture source: Xbox Game Studio sources also mentioned that Microsoft hopes to make some changes and develop some "smaller, possibly even experimental games" to save costs for AAA games. For example, Microsoft won the AAA award earlier this year with the small game "Eidolon Palu". High income.

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