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Job losses, studio closures, cancelled games: what we know about Xbox's devastating wave of layoffs


A round-up of another grim week in video games.

Ex-content coordinator, Fred Russell, shared a post on Facebook with images from across his time working on the series, noting: "Turn 10 Studios has shuttered the Forza Motorsport space and the team is no more." "HR is working directly with impacted employees to provide severance plan benefits (aligned with local laws), including pay, healthcare coverage, and job placement resources to support their transition. In a remarkably tone-deaf follow-up to the layoffs, Xbox Game Studios Publishing executive producer Matt Turnbull suggested laid-off staff use generative AI to help with the process of finding a new job.

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