217 jobs are on the line at the studio, report claims

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Negotiations over the future of Dishonored and Deathloop developers Arkane Lyon are reportedly seeing "several forms of takeover" considered as a November deadline looms for the divorce Xbox set in motion back in July . French law makes the process of shuttering or chucking away studios a lot harder for companies like Microsoft than it is elsewhere in the world, hence Arkane's fate still being up in the air while production work on Marvel's Blade nears completion according to the report.

French publication Le Monde are behind this paywalled report on how the negotiations between the two sides are going. They note that due to a French law brought in as of 2014, companies with more than 1000 staff have to search for a buyer for three months before they can throw up their hands and shut up shop.…