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Microsoft planning “major” Xbox layoffs next week


The cuts are expected to be announced next week.

Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Any major Xbox cuts will be the latest in a series of big gaming-related layoffs over the past 18 months, after Microsoft laid off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees in January 2024 and then in May 2024 the company closed several game studios, including Hi-Fi Rush developer Tango Gameworks and Redfall developer Arkane Austin. A weekly newsletter by David Pierce designed to tell you everything you need to download, watch, read, listen to, and explore that fits in The Verge’s universe.

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