Devs of canceled Xbox game join 2K to make their own studio

Microsoft is hoping you forgot, but allow me to remind you if you did: the company laid off roughly 9,000 employees across all of its divisions in early July this year, including Xbox and the development studios under its publishing wing.

As part of the cuts, Rare’s Everwild and ZeniMax Online’s new MMO were canned, and the Perfect Dark reboot was shuttered too — as was The Initiative, the studio making it with Crystal Dynamics.