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Woo!

Excuse, excuse, excuse, excuse, excuse.

news this week in gaming news microsoft 1600 staff have been laid off from xbox recently with another 1600 planned over the next year four studios have also left microsoft in what ceo asha shama calls the most significant in xbox history

Sorry, missing a word there.

Most significant restructure

in Xbox history.

The most significant restructure in Xbox history.

Compulsion Games and Double Fine will go independent, while Ninja Theory and Undead Labs will seek new ownership with a bit of cash to continue developing Senua and State of Decay 3.

Yeah.

Ashashama said, Our business is not healthy.

To grow, we bet on Game Pass, multiplatform, and a broader portfolio of content.

Our core business weakened, and we added more teams, more investment, and more time, hoping for a better outcome.

Game Pass subscriptions are less than half of what the company expected.

And Bethesda staff in Maryland tried to pay tribute to those who had been laid off from their studio with a memorial before HR allegedly told them to remove the celebration of service that they had created.

It

looks so grim.

The portraits with the roses in front of them.

I bet everybody who took their studio independent in the last 20 years and stayed that way is feeling so good about that choice right now.

Despite all the ups and downs they've been through, at least they're not dealing with this.

It's just bonkers to me, specifically, like, with Compulsion, uh, with Double Fine, they just released, like, critically acclaimed game after critically acclaimed game, and, you know, they're being closed down.

Oh, they're more so, they're going independent, thankfully.

But, like, State of Decay 3 and Senua were just announced at the last showcase.

Literally

just announced.

Like,