Halo Infinite, 343 Industries hit by the wave of layoffs: “Halo is not risk”

Microsoft will leave over 11 thousand employees at home, with some important cuts that also affect the gaming division and the division in charge of developing virtual reality products and services. A hard blow, which marks yet another mass layoff within the tech industry.

Google and Amazon also recently announced the layoffs of thousands of employees around the world. Many fans have legitimately wondered if these layoffs will also have an impact on the future of their favorite video games. An initial response comes from 343 Industries , the development studio behind the popular Halo franchise (after Bungie’s divorce from Microsoft).

Study subject to strong speculation in these hours, since Jason Schreier of Bloomberg wrote that Microsoft would have left home a large number of employees involved in the development of the contents of Halo Infinite (and the next chapters of the saga). Bloomberg reports, however, that the layoffs would have caused several ‘important’ victims: Joe Staten, the creative director of Halo Infinite, would also appear among the fired.

Although Schreier doesn’t have the final number of employees fired from the development team, it seems that many of the redundancies are concentrated in the team that took care of the Halo Infinite campaign (while, for now, the developers and artists who follow the multiplayer part would be less at risk).

The situation doesn’t look the best. Hence the need to reassure fans of the saga with an ad hoc statement: «343 Industries will continue to develop Halo universe products now and in the future, we will continue to work on epic stories, multiplayer and everything that makes Halo great» . Will it be enough to ease the panic born among Halo fans?