The studio behind first-person VR dungeon crawler The Mage’s Tale (2017), inXile Entertainment, has been acquired by Microsoft Studios.
Microsoft also acquired Obsidian Entertainment, the studio behind Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords (2005), Fallout New Vegas (2010), South Park: The Stick of Truth (2014) and the Pillars of Eternity series.
Both studios will continue on autonomously developing their own games, talent, and IP.
The announcement was made via Xbox’s blog, and while inXile Entertainment isn’t exclusively a VR studio, having developed several PC and console games in The Bard’s Tale series, Microsoft says the studio “will have the