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These changes come at a time when we have more players, games, and gaming hours than ever before,” said Xbox head Phil Spencer in an email to staff.
Microsoft’s layoffs in July 2025 have led to a major reshuffle in its gaming division. The disruptions even extend to crucial positions at Xbox and King, the ma ...
Xbox's layoffs were damaging enough, but it's now being reported that the knock-on effect is leading to even more job losses.
It's "impossible for something like this not to ripple through the studio and affect all of us in some way or another." ...
The thousands of recently terminated Microsoft employees, navigating one of the company's largest layoffs in years amid a ...
Microsoft cut 9,000 jobs across the company (via Bloomberg) and while the exact number of those layoffs that came from the Xbox division is unclear, the impact is clear. Some studios were closed, and ...
A Microsoft spokesperson said the Xbox team did not absorb the majority of the layoffs, but given its relatively small size in the organization, that framing may not accurately reflect the impact. The ...
Following Microsoft's latest mass layoffs that affected around 9,000 people--including dramatic cuts at Xbox--CEO Satya ...
The fact that Microsoft is currently investing billions of dollars in AI only adds to the dissonant reaction. Even if it wasn ...
I think it would be strange to jump straight into our usual updates without acknowledging the news that we've ended development on Everwild here at Rare. While this ...
AI investments at Microsoft are reshaping the company.
Microsoft confirmed that it’s laying off as many as 9,100 employees, or about 4 percent of its workforce, in yet another ...