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Meeting with 2024 Chris PlanteA few months after Xbox fire 1,900 employees in a blowMicrosoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer said that the best way to prevent more workpaths in the video gaming industry is to ensure constant financial growth for the shareholders of the main studios. This was the most logical way, intimated, flooring.
“What makes me worrying the most in the industry is the lack of growth,” Spencer said. “If players and dollars are in the industry that will be smaller in terms of next year, if you do not intend to grow many things that have to show the growth of investors, don’t have anyone’s share of someone’s share?
It’s as if it’s a natural and invaluable fact of life. Of course The company should constantly grow. Obviously The studio takes all of the shareholders. This probably the way This means to reduce costs to prepare numbers, it also means cutting headlines. And Spencer is a man who has a BattletoDs graphics tee, clearIt is necessary to do their best to make these investors, both compatriots and itself richer. The poor boy.
Spencer said “a business” Polygon. “I said now. We are in this industry I have been inside the industry and lost their jobs, I do not want to think about human friends in this industry, and do not want to make a career.”
The answer now – layoffs – but only flies to the desire to create a stable market where his friends can develop, so thinking that the problem is the problem itself and he is watching its own tail and shrug.
Swift advancement until July 2, 2025. Microsoft has left 9000 people Throughout the global workforce and the Xbox section, thousands of work, many studio closing and outstanding game cancellation shaken. In the memorial memories of leaking in the memorial memories, on the memories of employees and Linked’s status updates, and I talked to someone who had knowledge The situation in Halo Studios About the mood among developers. In general, there was a lot to watch. As he stood on July 8, here is not all the statements:
Studio layoffs, shutdowns and information reported
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Blizzard: Layoff; Warcraft Rumble sun beam
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Halo Studios: Shallow at least five people; We have published a The first score of tension In the studio
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Initiative: The studio was closed; Perfectly dark Reboot
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King: 10 percent of the studio that affects about 200 people
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Rare: Layoff; Creative Director and Banjo-Kazooie creator Gregg mayles Leaves after 35 years; Forever canceled
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Crow Program: In the same way
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Sledgehammer games: In the same way
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10 turns: This Forza Motorsport The team was shouted and closed with floor flooring; 10 turns now a Be on the horizon Support Studio
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Zenimax Online Studios: Studio President Matt Firor left after 18 years; Eagle canceled
The game cancellation was reported
Spencer said that in 2024 today today: Xbox section increases in the first three months of 2025 by an increase of 8% of the Xbox content and services.
This situation is not unique to Microsoft, or electronic crafts has canceled Black panther game and binded the studio that created it, and this The former executionerTangiling a new titanfall header, plus years one in the same way In Bioware. Meanwhile EA CEO Andrew Wilson went home More than $ 25 million 2024 in the fiscal year. According to the GDC in 2024, 11 percent of the developers were laying in the industrial Game industry survey. Statesman In 2025, the global gaming market is still expected to increase in 2025.
Layoffs is a cruel solution to a dense question and at the momentAAA organizes the spine of the industry. The world’s largest studios work in a binge and cleansing period buying and selling, crunch and shallows in the business plans. This cadence is becoming more chaotic as additional factors such as AI and consolidation, reduce recruitment numbers and increase the volume of retreat. In Microsoft, using the company’s Copilot AI Toolset “It is no longer optional“For workers and one worker told me:” They try to change as many jobs as they can with AI agents. “
Experiments such as them have helped accelerate unity efforts in the industry, including Xbox Studios.
“Microsoft’s more employees, including CWA members, including the company, are in a sudden time,” America’s communication workers are in a moment’s recent time. “Currently, the deep corporate consolidation and disruption live.
In addition to this latest round, 9000, Microsoft 6,000 people were fired throughout their units in May. Xbox segment specially lost much more 2500 Employees of employees in 2024 and Microsoft closed Arkane AustinAlpha Dog Games and Tango Game Works (Despite Krafton Tango’s Skooped Thank you for him). Fixed and low surface studios such as Tango, cancellation and industrial scattershot vibe New projects like BlackbirdAnd many proven zenimax teams – show the concept of Microsoft to manage these studios more than to support Microsoft developers there.
Layoffs, “How does this industry return to grow?” Is the answer to the question? Mass fires are not a function of artistic integrity or technological innovations and is an antitutical in the process of building really fresh and strong video games. I never asked you how the industrial benefit can grow as a player or critic. There are only a small and very special group and they don’t talk to me. Unfortunately they are all acting for us.
News
Helldivers 2 This summer will hit Xbox
Helldivers 2 The XBOX is going on August 26, as a year after a year after a year. Helldivers 2 Oknead game was developed by Studios and published by PlayStation, so it was not guaranteed to generally arrive on the Xbox platforms. To be clear, this Not because it is not included in the play passage At any time soon. Since he settled Run issues At the beginning of 2024 Helldivers 2 Gently, with more than 15 million copies sold between the sized player of intergalactic freedom fighters, PC and PS5.
Neil Druckmann comes home
Naughty dog co-founder Neil Druckmann steps back from the development of HBO The last TV series to prepare the game again. Druckmann is a joint creator of the show and has recently held its time to produce and write in HBO, but now returns the attention of the second season and the studio started.
“Now it is necessary for me to focus on my full attention to my full attention to my dog and its future projects, including the interesting next game. Intergalactic: Heretics Prophet“He said.” Back, Druckmann – Engadget MP Nathan Ingraham, video game industry I’m glad to see you again.
Former Ubisoft heads convicted in France
Former Ubisoft managers were convicted to protect the poisonous workplace with a poisonous and psychological abuse posted in France Francois, Serzh Hascoet and Guillaume Patruk. The former senior creative workshop was sentenced to 18 months in prison, postponed and the patrol was 12 months postponed. Francois, in addition to sexual attack, was in addition to the guilty and sentenced to three years in prison. This is a wrapping perennial investigation The French government is becoming complaints of toxicity and gender-based aggression in Ubisoft.
Yōtei dream Showcase on Thursday
Sucker Punch will show about 20 minutes Yōtei dream On Thursday, July 10, at 5 o’clock, while in 5 o’clock during the special game event. I can’t wait to watch that wind act.
Finally, Time flies
I was looking forward to Time flies Since me He sang my way through the demo 2022 in the summer game Fest.
AI will help you to depart from our non-pulled colleague, a colleague
Two days after Microsoft Layoffs’s news, the Xbox game Studios Publishing Publishing House created an article that offers “LLM or Copilot like LLM or Copilot) to help the executive producer Matt Turnbull, business loss. “The proposed hints,” I can send new opportunities to my old co-workers because I have prepared a friendly message, “and” “And” and “In a way that helps me to master this experience,” Tonedeaf writing was met with corresponding mockery and rapidly drawn.
Additional reading in the state of Xbox
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