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Microsoft’s Xbox turmoil isn’t slowing down (www.theverge.com)
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In a week when Xbox fans were hoping to hear a response from Microsoft to the PS5 Pro, the software giant is making a third round of gaming layoffs instead. 650 employees at Microsoft’s gaming business are being laid off, part of continued cuts at Xbox after Microsoft’s $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard.

Microsoft cut 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox jobs earlier this year and then shuttered four studios it acquired as part of its $7.5 billion Bethesda acquisition in May. Thankfully, Hi-Fi Rush studio Tango Gameworks was eventually saved from Microsoft’s shutdown after Krafton, the South Korean publisher behind PUBG: Battlegrounds and The Callisto Protocol, acquired the Japanese studio from Microsoft instead.

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[-] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

With layoffs happening in an election year I am a going to be a bit suspicious that executives are colluding to try to lower employment rates to influence voters to vote Republican so their millionaire executives and billion dollar corps can get lower taxes and less regulation. We'll see if they start rehiring again for 2025 after the election is over.

[-] mister_newbie@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago

Wouldn't shock me in the slightest

[-] Doom@ttrpg.network 3 points 1 month ago

Damn means they're very desperate that is a good thing

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