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.

Xbox's recent 'restructuring' outright led to the cancellation of many games, but it has done little to offer relief for other projects like Fable.

One of the industry professionals to lament Microsoft’s layoffs is EA Japan’s general manager Shaun Noguchi. In his personal ...

Microsoft has reportedly cancelled Everwild, an in-development game from UK-based Sea of Thieves developer Rare, and potentially other projects amid a round of layoffs that will see the company lose ...

Microsoft’s Stockholm-based King division, which makes Candy Crush, is cutting 10% of its staff, or about 200 jobs, according to people familiar with the plans. Other European offices, such as ZeniMax ...

The developers behind the Microsoft-cancelled MMORPG have claimed that the company has stolen the future of the creators and ...

Microsoft is cutting more than 9,000 jobs -- 4% of its global workforce -- and as a result, Everwild and the Perfect Dark reboot have been put out to pasture. Microsoft Layoffs Are Here and These ...

Microsoft Gaming will close down Santa Monica-based studio The Initiative and cancel its December 2020-announced Perfect Dark reboot amid mass layoffs, according to a Windows Central report.

In addition, Schreier reports that the upcoming MMORPG from ZeniMax Online Studios, codenamed Blackbird, has also been cancelled as part of these layoffs. Blackbird has been in development since 2018 ...

Microsoft Gaming laid off over 2,500 workers ... Devs react with anger and concern as yet more Microsoft layoffs see huge cuts and cancellations at game studios ; Microsoft orders more Xbox ...

Rare’s long-in-development game Everwild is no more, according to a report from Video Games Chronicle, citing sources at the ...

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