Game Theory: Microsoft killed some damn fine game studios this week

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Game Theory: Microsoft killed some damn fine game studios this week
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The teams behind last year's Hi-Fi Rush and 2017's Prey were both let go by the gaming giant this week

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Tango got its start with two extremely over-the-top horror titles, The Evil Within 1 and 2—capitalizing, at least in part, on the studio’s status as a project founded by Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami. If we’re being honest, though, we hold a special spot in our hearts for 2022's Ghostwire: Tokyo, an admittedly flawed attempt to merge supernatural investigation with a first-person shooter, which had some of our favorite open-world exploration gameplay of the last few years.

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