https://wccftech.com/microsoft-the-initiative-rockstar-hires/

At E3 2018 Microsoft dropped a bomb, announcing it was adding a whopping five studios to it’s first-party stable. Most of these, like Playground Games, Ninja Theory, Undead Labs, and Compulsion Games, were pre-existing studios Microsoft snapped up, but the publisher is also starting an all-new studio in Santa Monica called The Initiative.

The Initiative is headed up by Darrell Gallagher, who’s contributed to a long list of games, including Rise of the Tomb Raider and Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy, but who else is working at the new studio? Well, Gallagher recently announced a few names via LinkedIn – he’s since pulled the post for some reason, but, of course, the Internet never forgets.