Another former Xbox studio is "independently owned, again" after Microsoft shut it down in 2024

Alpha Dog Games – a studio shuttered by Microsoft two years ago – has reemerged as an independent studio. Two years ago – in what was the beginning of Microsoft's apparent new trend of yearly summer layoffs – Microsoft shut down Prey developer Arkane Austin, Hi-Fi Rush developer Tango Gameworks, and Mighty Doom developer Alpha Dog Games, as well as folding Roundhouse Games into ZeniMax Online Studios. While Tango Gameworks was eventually revived by PUBG publisher Krafton,