https://wccftech.com/microsoft-the-initiative-episodic-black-mirror-divisive/

What is Microsoft’s much-ballyhooed new “AAAA” studio The Initiative working on? It’s a question Xbox fans have been asking themselves for years, and if the latest rumors end up being true, the answer may defy expectations. During the most recent episode of the XboxEra Podcast, the hosts discuss what they’ve heard about The Initiative, and according to them, their first big project is actually episodic. They specifically compare it to the Netflix series Black Mirror, in that there will likely be multiple standalone games/stores that will exist within a loosely connected universe. Here’s what insider Nick Baker, aka Shpeshal Ed, had to say on the subject…

All those episodes of Black Mirror are linked to each other, they take place within the same universe. [...] When I talked about The Initiative's game, I'm not saying it's exactly like Black Mirror, but it has that Black Mirror-like aspect to it. It's just stuff we're hearing. I know the world episodic has been thrown around.