Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer said that the layoffs were part of a larger "execution plan" that would reduce "areas of overlap," a little more than three months after Microsoft closed on its acquisition of Activision Blizzard. Former Blizzard President Mike Ybarr...
Microsoft layoffs 2023: 26061 employees laid off in 2023 already It is important to take precautions, and layoffs are not the only option. It’s terrible news for the industry overall that some businesses have halted or stopped hiring. These are the tech companies that have slowed or frozen h...
A Securities and Exchange Commission filing from Google parent company Alphabet disclosed the memo from Pichai but did not specify the cost of the layoffs. CNBC previously reported that employees had been anticipating layoffs with mounting anxiety and that at a heated September 2022 all-hands meeting...
Microsoft plans to lay off 1,900 employees in its gaming division, which is approximately 8% of Microsoft Gaming's workforce. Most of the layoffs included employees of the recently acquired company Activision Blizzard. The Xbox and ZeniMax teams will also lose some employees. The Vergemanaged ...
These 1,900 people have been added onto a list of several thousand already impacted by big tech layoffs in 2024. More specifically in the realm of video games, nearly 6,000 jobs have been cut this January, as documented by an excellent ongoing roundup on Kotaku. ...
According to CNBC, this round of layoffs will affect employees involved in technical roles including software engineers, AR/VR gameplay programmers and user experience designers. Other tech employees may be laid off next month. This fresh round of layoffs is a part of the 10,000 layoffs that ...
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Similarly, Blizzard’s Warcraft Rumble team is affected by the layoffs. Warcraft Rumble launched as a free-to-play mobile tower defense game in 2023 across iOS and Android and while it started strong, interest appears to have tailed off. Warcraft Rumble is now movin...
Facebook parent Meta is laying off 11,000 people, about 13% of its workforce. And Elon Musk, the new Twitter CEO, has slashed the company's workforce. Nadella made no direct mention of the layoffs on Wednesday when he put in an appearance at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting ha...
“Money in Excel” is scheduled to shut down on June 30, 2023. Last month, Satya Nadella-run Microsoft became the first tech giant to lay off employees as part of a “realignment”. The layoffs at Microsoft affected nearly 1 per cent of its 1,80,000-strong workforce across i...