Activision studio Toys for Bob is going independent after sweeping Xbox layoffs

Activision studio Toys for Bob has announced that it's leaving the corporate rat race and is spinning off as an independent developer. This comes just weeks after Activision Blizzard's parent company Microsoft instituted sweeping layoffs at Toys for Bob that impacted 86 employees. That's more than half of the entire staff. The developer said the choice to go indie will allow it to return to "being a small and nimble studio", harkening back to its early days of the 1980s and 1990s when it made hi...