Fallout and Skyrim team brings in live-services experts from Bethesda’s BattleCry studio

Bethesda Softworks canceled its online melee game BattleCry in 2015, so it was weird that the publisher still had a studio named BattleCry Studios. Today, the company announced that it has remedied that oddity by shifting that development group under the Bethesda Game Studios team that is responsible for the publisher’s flagship role-playing franchises Fallout and The Elder Scrolls. The Texas-based team will now go by the name Bethesda Game Studios Austin.

By incorporating the former BattleCry team into the Bethesda Game Studios organization, the Skyrim developer gets some extra man power to help it develop content for upcoming games. But the Austin team also brings a certain expertise in ongoing support and microtransactions.