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.

Recent developments at Microsoft deal significant damage to the Xbox Game Pass subscription service that will be felt for years.

Sea of Thieves studio Rare is the next Xbox studio to respond to the recent Microsoft layoffs and in this case, specifically the cancelation of the action-adventure game Everwild.

On July 1, Xbox's parent company announced it would be terminating around 9,000 employees — about four percent of its workforce — in a move intended to ensure the company was set up for ...

Microsoft’s layoffs have impacted several Xbox teams and first-party games. Microsoft has officially begun laying off workers this week, following confirmation that the company was planning to lay off ...

As reported last week, Microsoft is again laying people off from its Xbox division, this time at mobile game developer King, with Bloomberg reporting that around 10% of the studio is being cut, or ...

Microsoft is cutting 9,000 jobs across the company today, with its Xbox gaming division being affected. This will be the fourth mass layoff the company has undergone in the past 18 months.

As expected, layoffs at Microsoft and Xbox did happen this week, and they were unbelievably brutal. Approximately 9,000 people reportedly got laid off, multiple games were canceled, and entire ...

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 ...

Another wave of layoffs has hit Microsoft's Xbox division. This time, we’re seeing the impact on the likes of King, Rare, and The Initiative. This has also led to the cancellation of titles such as ...

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 ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. There was a lot of carnage this week at Xbox after Microsoft laid off over 9000 employees across its many divisions. People lost their jobs and ...