Ex-employees of Annapurna Interactive who quit en masse last year have reportedly found their next project. According to Bloomberg, the team is taking over the games and franchises of Private Division, a former Take-Two label that published indie games. A new enterprise that doesn't have a name as yet is said to have been formed and it appears that some of the remaining 20 or so employees of Private Division will be laid off as part of the transition. Take-Two said in November that it had sold Private Division (which published The Outer Worlds and physical copies of Hades) to an unnamed buyer, reportedly a private equity firm called Haveli Investments. Haveli is said to have brought in the former Annapurna employees in recent weeks and handed them the keys to Private Division's portfolio.

Mega-publisher Take-Two Interactive is shuttering Rollerdrome studio Roll7 and Kerbal Space Program 2 team Intercept Games, according to paperwork seen by Bloomberg. Roll7 is based in London, and was founded in 2008 by lifelong friends Tom Hegarty and Simon Bennett. Roll7 is the studio behind OlliOlli, OlliOlli World and Rollerdrome, all fantastic games with wheel-based mechanics. OlliOlli was a Vita hit in 2014 and World landed in early 2022 -- they're both great, and the latter in particular is a flow-state-inducing skateboarding platformer with an adorable art style. Rollerdrome was one of our favorite games of 2022; it's a luscious third-person rollerskating-and-gunplay game that looks like a slice of 1970s dystopian sci-fi. Roll7 has picked up multiple prestigious awards over the years, including recent wins at BAFTA and DICE.

Take-Two Interactive plans to lay off 5 percent of its workforce, or about 600 employees, by the end of the year, as reported in an SEC filing Tuesday. The studio is also canceling several in-development projects. These moves are expected to cost 160 million to 200 million to implement, and should result in 165 million in annual savings for Take-Two. As the owner of Grand Theft Auto and the parent company of Rockstar Games, 2K, Private Division, Zynga and Gearbox, Take-Two is a juggernaut in the video game industry. It reported 5.3 billion in revenue in 2023, a nearly 2 billion increase over the previous year.

Back in July, Private Division and V1 Interactive announced Disintegration, a melding of FPS and RTS in a post-apocalyptic sci-fi battleground. If that sounds weird to you, you'd be correct. Genre labels don't tell the whole story on this one. Here's everything we know about Disintegration so far. No exact Disintegration release date has been given yet, but developer V1 Interactive is aiming for release between Q1 and early Q2 2020, meaning sometime in April or May at the latest.

E3's wide variety of games in development includes creations that offer players an alternative from the typical action-adventures and online battles. LOS ANGELES -- Hundreds of video games are headed toward TVs, console systems, computer displays and mobile devices in the coming months. Of course, that means impending releases from longtime favorite franchises such as "The Legend of Zelda,""Star Wars" and "Call of Duty" and new takes on beloved characters including "Marvel's Avengers." But the breadth of games in development includes many creations that will offer players an alternative from the typical wave of action-adventures and online battles. Here's a quartet of quirky, offbeat treats uncovered from the array on display at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, which wrapped up here earlier this week.

A fact most casual video game users might be unaware of is that three franchises as radically different as "Grand Theft Auto," "NBA 2K" and "Borderlands" come from the same parent company. Take-Two Interactive is a large video game publisher that owns and runs separate publishing labels 2K and Rockstar Games, which both release different kinds of games under those distinct labels. This week, Take-Two is splitting some of its upcoming projects into a new, third label called Private Division. Private Division is designed with a focus on "high-end indie studios," or in other words, games that are larger in scale and scope than small indie projects, but also not as expensive to produce as a blockbuster title like "Grand Theft Auto." The only available game in the Private Division current lineup is "Kerbal Space Program," a hardcore simulation game that uses realistic physics models to build spacecraft for little cartoon people.