Microsoft made a big splash with the announcement that it was acquiring Bethesda and its parent company ZeniMax. The deal includes huge franchises like Elder Scrolls, Fallout, and Doom, but that's not all. The acquisition actually includes eight new studios, all of which will now become first-party for Microsoft.
In the announcement, Microsoft mentioned all the studios represented by the acquisition. The company didn't outline specific current or future game projects in the works from each studio, but we know some of them from prior announcements. Many recent games were co-developed across multiple studios.
- Bethesda Softworks
- Bethesda Game Studios
- Fallout 76
- Elder Scrolls Blades
- Starfield
- Elder Scrolls 6
- id Software
- Doom (series)
- Rage (series)
- Wolfenstein (series)
- ZeniMax Online Studios
- Elder Scrolls Online
- Fallout 76
- Arkane
- Dishonored (series)
- Prey
- Deathloop
- Wolfenstein Youngblood
- MachineGames
- Wolfenstein Youngblood
- Tango Gameworks
- The Evil Within (series)
- Ghostwire: Tokyo
- Alpha Dog
- MonstroCity: Rampage (mobile)
- Roundhouse Studios (formerly Human Head)
- Prey
We can expect many of these games to hit Xbox Game Pass, along with new releases like Starfield and Elder Scrolls 6. That's already a hefty catalog of new franchises under the Xbox umbrella, but questions have been popping up across social media regarding partnerships or interplays between those and other, currently owned Microsoft studios.
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