A week after Microsoft closed 4 game studios, Microsoft-owned Activision announces a new game studio

Just over a week after Microsoft abruptly shuttered four studios—Arkane Austin, Tango Gameworks, Alpha Dog Games, and Roundhouse Games—Microsoft-owned Activision has announced the launch of a new internal studio called Elsewhere Entertainment, "exclusively focused on creating a new narrative-based and genre-defining AAA franchise."

The new studio is based in Warsaw, Poland, and is made up of "storytelling experts" who have previously worked on games including The Last of Us, Uncharted, The Witcher...