A New Game is launched “A giant black hole sucking everything in, and spitting out bones”: Devs react with anger and concern as yet more Microsoft layoffs see huge cuts and cancellations at game studios is launched.
“A giant black hole sucking everything in, and spitting out bones”: Devs react with anger and concern as yet more Microsoft layoffs see huge cuts and cancellations at game studios new features
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“A giant black hole sucking everything in, and spitting out bones”: Devs react with anger and concern as yet more Microsoft layoffs see huge cuts and cancellations at game studios new features
As part of broader layoffs at Microsoft affecting several thousand people, multiple studios and teams under the Xbox umbrella have seen significant cuts, cancellations, and closures of their own – the fourth big wave of such redundancies in roughly 18 months.
Devs across the industry responded to the news – which seems to have reached affected employees in confusing and disconcerting patches, assuming they were informed at all before seeing it reported elsewhere – by expressing concern for the direction of Xbox and the games industry, support for affected employees, and frustration at yet another case of workers cashing leadership’s checks.
Many current and/or former Xbox studio employees shared word of the layoffs on social media. One employee says Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier, who’s been covering the layoffs in social media updates as staggered confirmations roll in, “is getting these updates almost faster than I, an impacted employee at Zenimax Online Studios, am. Which is creating a borderline slapstick layer to this experience.”