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Microsoft cuts 1,900 staff at Xbox, Bethesda and Activision Blizzard
Do you want to get the latest gaming industry news straight to your inbox? Sign up for our daily and weekly newsletters here. Microsoft is cutting 1,900 staff across the Xbox, Bethesda and Activision Blizzard teams as the latest in a wave of layoffs across the game industry. On top of that, Blizzard’s president Mike […]
“As we move forward in 2024, the leadership of Microsoft Gaming and Activision Blizzard is committed to aligning on a strategy and an execution plan with a sustainable cost structure that will support the whole of our growing business. The people who are directly impacted by these reductions have all played an important part in the success of Activision Blizzard, ZeniMax and the Xbox teams, and they should be proud of everything they’ve accomplished here.” The studio announced its survival game in January 2022, but now it has been canceled and Booty said Microsoft would shift people to work on several promising new projects in early development at Blizzard.
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