A day after Xbox laid off 268 staff members at Halo Studios, a source claims that only a handful of employees remain at the developer.

"Pretty wild."

In a post to Xbox wire today, Matt Booty shared that the roles would be eliminated across “Halo Studios, other first-party studios, and the XGS management and central functions layer” and would be counted as a part of the previously laid-out restructuring of the company, which he claims is now three-quarters of the way complete.

Microsoft is cutting 268 Xbox roles and handing development of the next Halo game to Activision as part of a broader gaming reset.

Major Halo Studios reorganization, but almost no impact on users for nowThis Halo Studios reorganization is not simply a story about "Halo coming to an end."Following the acquisition of Activision Blizzard,

The future of the Halo franchise rests in Activision's hands, for better or for worse.

The Halo franchise has a new home at Activision, as Microsoft announced sweeping changes to its Xbox games division this week. As various Xbox studios are being consolidated under new branches of the company,

Epic's Tim Sweeney commented on the Xbox restructuring news, claiming that top studios deserve projects with the best potential, like Halo.