Microsoft Game Studios grows European arm

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Microsoft Game Studios grows European arm

Posted May 4th 2007 2:00PM by Richard Mitchell
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Microsoft announced today that Microsoft Game Studios is opening a European branch. The branch is being opened to more effectively communicate with Microsoft's European studios and partners, including Lionhead, Rare, Remedy, Real Time Worlds, and Bizarre Creations. It will be based in Reading, UK, hometown of Ricky Gervais (who is actually featured in Microsoft training videos). The new branch will be headed by Phil Spencer, currently Microsoft Game Studios' general manager. Spencer will retain his current position while heading up the new European branch.

Hopefully, this means we'll see Fable 2 before 2009.

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1. For all the European X360 gamers, after the recent announcement (http://www.xbox360fanboy.com/2007/05/04/microsoft-cracks-down-on-country-specific-content/) this COULD mean that you guys are going to see some form of a XBL Video Marketplace geared toward Europeans...

If this happens, the only 4 places left out in the dark are Canada, Asia, Australia and all the unsupported countries... which majorly sucks.

Posted at 2:20PM on May 4th 2007 by DjDATZ

2. This is very impressive news that Microsoft is expanding its European gaming workforce by such a large amount of employees due to the growing popularity of the Xbox 360 in Europe, just like in North America, and Asia.

Ironically, many of the new employees may be employees who used to work for Sony, because Sony recently was forced to fire 10% of its European workforce because of all the financial problems that Sony Computer Entertainment is having in Europe, since the Playstation 3 is doing very poorly in Europe, just like in North America and Asia.

Posted at 3:14PM on May 4th 2007 by William Winchester

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