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G2ThaUNiT on 08 March 2022
NobleTeam360 said:

Is anybody else having issues with Discord atm?

Yes. I'm also having issues with Spotify. Wonder if AWS is having another outage.



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G2ThaUNiT on 08 March 2022
shikamaru317 said:

Update on the size and hiring at Microsoft's 1st party studios, last update was a bit more than 2 months ago:

Sources: LinkedIn and studio websites

Currently owned studios

Studio

Current Employee Count on LinkedIn

 Employee Count at last update Change Current Open Job Listings Open Job listings last update Change
Mojang 765 714 +51 17 20 -3
343 Industries 550 543 +7 24 30 -6
Zenimax Online Studios 486 477 +9 41 50 -9
Bethesda Game Studios 401 (underrepresented on LinkedIn, over 420 according to a March 2021 Xbox video and they have been growing ever since then) 398  +3 48 53 -5
Playground Games 336 327 +9 128 126 +2
id Software 286 282 +4 26 17 +9
Rare Ltd. 262 262 0 20 18 +2
Obsidian Entertainment 262 256 +6 37 26 +11
Arkane Studios

247 (most likely underrepresented on LinkedIn, believed to be over 300 devs)

 243

+4

 31 38 -7
The Coalition 180 (definitely underrepresented on LinkedIn, confirmed to be over 350 on a May 2021 The Coalition blog post)

186

 -6 25 44 -19
Turn 10 168 174 -6 21 9 +12
MachineGames 152 148 +4 21 18 +3
Ninja Theory 133 (underrepresented on LinkedIn, over 150 devs according to a May 2021 recruitment ad) 137 -4 3 0 +3
inXile Entertainment 110 108 +2 9 12 -3
Undead Labs 109 109 0 13 14 -1
Compulsion Games 80 77 +3 9 5 +4
Double Fine Productions 76 75 +1 1 0 +1
The Initiative 57 58 -1 4 10 -6
Roundhouse Studios 28 27 +1 1 0 +1
Alpha Dog Games 19 17 +2 3 6 -3
Tango Gameworks 12 (way underrepresented on LinkedIn, over 140 devs in the credits for their last game, Evil Within 2) 10 +2 11 9 +2
World's Edge ?? NA NA ?? ?? ??

Pending Studios

Studio Current Employee Count on LinkedIn Employee Count at Last Count Change Current Open Job Listings Open Job Listings at Last Count Change
Blizzard 5223 NA NA 439 NA NA
King 2661 NA NA 105 NA NA
Treyarch 556 NA NA 18 NA NA
Infinity Ward 537 NA NA 117 NA NA
Sledgehammer 483 NA NA 95 NA NA
Beenox 427 NA NA 23 NA NA
High Moon 230 NA NA 19 NA NA
Demonware 219 NA NA 48 NA NA
Toys For Bob 129 NA NA 9 NA NA
Vicarious Visions 118 NA NA 14 NA NA
Activision Shanghai 63 NA NA 1 NA NA
Digital Legends 55 NA NA 19 NA NA
Solid State 1 NA NA NA NA NA

Note: World's Edge doesn't have a LinkedIn page or their own studio website, as they are classified as part of Microsoft due to having their headquarters at Microsoft's Redmond Washington campus, but they had 40+ devs by the end of 2019, at last official update, and were recently confirmed to be hiring for a new project. Roundhouse does not have a public LinkedIn page, but I was able to count up the people who claim to work there via a LinkedIn search.

Note 2: I am disregarding open job listings in non-development categories like marketing and finance. Figures include only jobs in development positions (programming, development, QA, Art, Audio, Animation, etc.)

That's so weird how Mojang is by a mile the fastest growing studio. With how much all these studios have been hiring, I'm surprised that ZOS and Playground are the only 2 studios that have gone up by 9 employees. I wonder why Playground has soooooo many openings though! 



Spade on 08 March 2022

MS needs an event soon, way too quiet.



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Barozi on 09 March 2022
Ryuu96 said:

Nice.

Also Activision on #4 and Bethesda on #5.



G2ThaUNiT on 09 March 2022

Did anyone see the leaked Redfall gameplay? It was taken off YouTube already



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G2ThaUNiT on 09 March 2022
Ryuu96 said:
gtotheunit91 said:

Did anyone see the leaked Redfall gameplay? It was taken off YouTube already

I did but apparently it's from the same build of the gameplay leak last year.

Gotcha! So everyone's blowing stuff out of proportion lol



G2ThaUNiT on 09 March 2022
Ryuu96 said:

Damn it! And I'm over here hoping Bethesda will sunset the game in the next year or two, or at least move development to ZeniMax Online, you know, like they should've done from the beginning lol.

If a Fallout 5/New Vegas 2 or Fallout 3/New Vegas remasters get announced, this game will tank in player count so fast. So many are keeping with it just because it's the only new Fallout content we have :(



G2ThaUNiT on 09 March 2022

How on earth can that TMNT collection not be on every platform?!?



G2ThaUNiT on 09 March 2022
shikamaru317 said:
gtotheunit91 said:

How on earth can that TMNT collection not be on every platform?!?

It might be multiplat and Konami just hasn't confirmed it yet. If it is actually PS exclusive, Sony must have hatted it. 

That would be super weird if it was. We already have that new retro game TMNT: Shredder's Revenge that is multiplat



G2ThaUNiT on 09 March 2022
shikamaru317 said:
gtotheunit91 said:

That would be super weird if it was. We already have that new retro game TMNT: Shredder's Revenge that is multiplat

Hopefully Konami confirms it one way or other other soon. Seems like people are assuming it is exclusive because of what the Konami guy said in the Playstation Blog, but that is the Playstation Blog, the equivalent of Xbox Wire, neither of them talks about other consoles in their articles, they always try to make games seem exclusive when they're not.

Information does seem to be coming out about some of the games, but man that would be a low blow on Sony's part to moneyhat a collection of old games. Arcade games primarily that aren't even remakes/remasters. Just a simple collection.