At E3 2018, Microsoft announced that it had bought four new studios: Ninja Theory, Playground Games, Undead Labs and Compulsion.
But the Xbox firm also revealed it had set up a new developer in Santa Monica called The Initiative. At its helm was Crystal Dynamics vet Darrell Gallagher, who had joined Microsoft in an unspecified role two months prior in April.
When the studio was announced, he said his role was to create "something ground-breaking", going on to say that setting up The Initiative combined his love of building teams and developers.
Now E3 is fast approaching and it's entirely possible we will get a glimpse at what the new Santa Monica-based studio has been up to.
So we decided to take a look at what kind of talent The Initiative has attracted since it was unveiled in June 2018 through the power of - the ironically Microsoft-owned - LinkedIn to find out more.
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