Xbox Layoffs Leave Staff Grieving Amid Devastating Fallout: Report | 📲 LatestLY

Xbox Layoffs Leave Staff Grieving Amid Devastating Fallout: Report | 📲 LatestLY

Microsoft's gaming division is cutting 3,200 jobs as part of an Xbox restructuring initiative, with layoffs affecting studios including Bethesda Game Studios, ZeniMax Online Studios and id Software. Employees have described abrupt virtual termination meetings, while unions are seeking improved severance and support. Developers warn the cuts could lead to project delays. 📲 Xbox Layoffs Leave Staff Grieving Amid Devastating Fallout: Report.

"You can’t just throw new people at that problem": Bethesda devs doubt future Elder Scrolls and Fallout games will have the same "quality level", after losing seasoned staff to Xbox cuts

Unionised Bethesda Games Studios staff embroiled in Microsoft's latest round of mass layoffs have expressed further doubts about the company's ability to create games at the "quality level" of the very bestest Elder Scrolls and Fallout projects, as they continue to haggle with Microsoft over severance terms.

Skyrim and Fallout made Bethesda devs feel "safe" from mass layoffs before Xbox ended decades-long careers in two-minute meetings

u201cI don't know how you create games at the quality level we were without the institutional knowledge that\u2019s been lost"