Tag: gaming industry

Laid-off id Software artist says Microsoft is ‘nuking the team into the dirt’ and is now the size of a ‘support studio’

Laid-off id Software artist…

The scale of Microsoft’s brutal Xbox layoffs become clearer by the day. Among the studios that Xbox hasn’t decided…
Bethesda union says company HR forced staff to remove a display honoring their laid-off colleagues

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Bethesda Game Studios reportedly suffered “significant” cuts during this week’s Xbox layoffs, which put 1,600 employees out of work…
IO Interactive says Project Fantasy isn’t dead, but confirms that layoffs are happening

IO Interactive says Project…

Hitman and 007 First Light developer IO Interactive announced last week that it had lost funding for Project Fantasy,…
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma points the finger at Phil Spencer’s strategy for yesterday’s sweeping layoffs: ‘We simply spread ourselves too thin’

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma…

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has made a number of big changes since taking over from former chief Phil Spencer.…
Xbox layoffs hit accessibility leadership, calling into question Microsoft’s continued commitment to accessibility initiatives

Xbox layoffs hit accessibility…

Yesterday’s 1,600 layoffs at Xbox—just half of the 3,200 job cuts Microsoft intends to inflict on its gaming division…
Bernie Sanders is mad about the Xbox layoffs

Bernie Sanders is mad…

US senator Bernie Sanders is famous as not-exactly-a-friend of powerful corporations: He’s previously called for OpenAI to be broken…
Gabe Newell caps off Steam Machine week by taking delivery of a new $500 million superyacht with a submarine garage, on-board hospital and 15 gaming PCs

Gabe Newell caps off…

Valve co-founder and games industry man of mystery Gabe Newell put consoles on notice Wednesday, and has now ended…
It looks like Blizzard’s escaped Xbox’s grim reset scythe for now, though there’s still time to be caught in the second 1600-strong layoff wave coming 2027

It looks like Blizzard’s…

The Xbox reset is afoot, and while there aren’t strictly speaking any studio closures yet, with multiple developers in…
‘I find it really sad’: Hideo Kojima laments the current state of the videogame industry as companies turn away from physical discs

‘I find it really…

We’ve watched the slow death of physical games media for a decade now, whether it be discs costing more,…
Compulsion Games is returning to independent management amid sweeping Xbox reorganization: ‘Our immediate priority is to support our team’

Compulsion Games is returning…

Today, Xbox announced what it calls “the most significant restructure in Xbox history”: Part of a larger downsizing at…