In January 2024, the corporation laid off 1.9 thousand employees of Activision Blizzard and Xbox. At the same time, Blizzard president Mike Ybarra and chief designer Allen Adam left. The layoffs then affected about 8% of Microsoft Gaming. The announced layoffs resulted in the closure of two Toy...
Well, it's clear that some significant strategic shift is in the cards following the Activision Blizzard acquisition in October 2023 and massive layoffs in January 2024. During the next edition of the Xbox podcast, we'll finally learn what Microsoft's current plan for Xbox actually is. It's ...
Huge New Layoffs Hit Microsoft’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) Xbox Division Steve AndersonSep 13, 2024, 12:33 AM A+ A- Story Highlights Microsoft lays off another 650 people from its Xbox division, just as a series of service outages hit. Normally, big layoffs are good news for a company, but not ...
ByTomas FranzesePublished June 5, 2024 Save Microsoft Summer Gaming Marathon This story is part of our Summer Gaming Marathon series. Xbox has had a rough year. From the divisive reactions to itsmultiplatform plansto layoffs and theshuttering of lauded studioslike Tango Gameworks, there hasn’t ...
Microsoft is in the midst of layoffs, with a picture emerging regarding which divisions are being especially hard-hit... Read More E3 2023 May Be Missing Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony Despite being the first E3 in four years, E3 2023 may be missing the biggest console makers: Microsoft, Ni...
In his email, Spencer explained that the job cuts will largely be limited to “corporate and supporting teams”, and that the layoffs will not entail any studio closures or cancellations of games, devices, or features. This round of cuts is also tied to Microsoft adjusting its framework follow...
Microsoft last announced big layoffs a year ago,affecting 10,000 employees. The software maker is due to report its fiscal Q2 2024 earnings next week, which, for the first time, will include results from the impact of the Activision Blizzard acquisition. ...
shutdowns within its gaming studios. While that stands true for the most part,GameFilehas gotten an update on the situation, and it paints a different picture.Call of Duty: Warzone Mobileand another team were heavily scaled down due to these layoffs because of poor performance by the ...
Big Tech Data reveals Google's search dominance wobbled in 2024 Graeme Hanna12 hours Detailed analysis has revealed Google’s share of the global search engine market fell below the 90% marker for the first time in around 10 years. According to Statcounter, Google’s near... ...
Microsoft, currently valued at over $3 trillion, did not say how many staff will lose their jobs, but significant layoffs are inevitable. Microsoft's announcement of the cuts at Bethesda come over three months after the company announced plans to cut 1,900 staff from its video game workforce...