Link: https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/09/22/continuing-our-reset/

I hope this means the remaining staff have been consolidated rather than let go, but this is 2026 after all. I'm sure employees at 343/hs meant well, had compelling ideas and goals, and were ultimately held back by management.

I don't revel in people losing their jobs, but I do truly hope they've finally ousted problematic figures in studio management like Pierre.

Asha "Chop Shop" Sharma

Woof

On the one hand 343 as a studio was deeply incompetent and didn't deserve Halo. On the other, it was their namesake and they at least had reason to try. A random Activision studio getting it with zero investment in the property scares me more.

I'd prefer to have had halo just end with Reach. Good stories deserve an end. Appreciate getting MCC on PC, mind you.

Buckle up.

They should have let it go yeah, but they didnt want to risk it with new IP. So, we milk the existing franchise instead, with people who dont understand what Halo is/was.

No no, literally any studio would be an improvement coming from 343 "Halo Studios." I would take a Halo game from an Electronic Arts or Ubisoft studio at this point. There is no way to make it any worse, so at most it would stay the same.

I certainly would have preferred not Activision, but at least they have a lot of experience with a wide variety of games they published. There is more potential there than with 343.

Damn from a dogshit dev to another dogshit dev.

I mean at this point, morbid curiosity is getting the better of me.

Like I wonder if they'll continue to support proton for online play.

there is apparently still one more wave of layoffs remaining.

I have a feeling it's gonna get worse and in time people will do historical revisionism and start praising the 343 era games.