No link! just inside info

I imagine it's for beefing up Kinect or Kinect-ish capacity, or it could very well have to do with the Nextbox (which will be Kinect integrated from day one if rumors are to be believed)

About time they do something about what I consider to be their greatest weakness.

aight im back because seece intrigued me like always .......  when exactly january ? and could it be Remedy or EPic :)

I hope they buy out Remedy and Epic games.

I hope they buy out a good dev instead!

New studios is better no? (more games)

That was directed to the two people above me who mentioned Epic or Remedy. Twisted Pixel is easily one of the best developers this generation 

should be Feb~March if MS made it

bigger than TP or RedLynx,but not publisher level

developed some creative games

Wooh, let the wild speculation commence. These are the guys that are chummy with MS currently. Stolen from wiki

Certain Affinity - Crimson Alliance, Halo Anniversary

Climax Group - Sudeki, Bloodforge

Crytek - Ryse

Double Fine - Iron Brigade, Happy Action Theater

Epic Games - Gears of War series

Frontier Developments - Kinectimals, Kinect Disneyland Adventures

Ftoni Studios - Untitled Project Too small

Gas Powered Games - Age of Empires Online Used to own Gas Power iirc 

Grasshopper Manufacture - Diabolical Pitch 

Grounding Inc. - Project Draco [bleh]

Luma Arcade - The Harvest [bleh]

Mistwalker - Lost Odyssey [I wish]

NanaOn-Sha - Haunt [Possible]

Q Entertainment - Ninety-Nine Nights series [Don't see it]

Remedy Entertainment - Alan Wake [good chance]

Robot Entertainment - Orcs Must Die! Old First party don't see them 

Ruffian Games - Crackdown series Only developed one game, and it wasn't creative

Sarbakan - Lazy Raiders Too small

Signal Studios - Toy Soldiers Too small

Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab - CarneyVale: Showtime

Ska Studios - The Dishwasher series Too small 

SouthEnd Interactive - Lode Runner 2009, ilomilo Already owned

Undead Labs - Untitled Xbox Live Arcade Project Just no