Topic
Job cuts across video game development and publishing, and the ways studios and affected workers disclose them.
Xbox has made Mojang president Kayleen Walters head of XP, a new four-division unit for Xbox's franchises outside the games. Her move leaves Mojang with its second new president since February, the cost of putting one franchise executive over brand extensions across Xbox.
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Xbox CEO Asha Sharma told the New York Times that Xbox is not for sale, after a summer of layoffs that hit the division in the thousands. For anyone planning around Xbox, the useful signal is which games the cuts spared and which ones Sharma has promised to fund.
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Microsoft cut 268 gaming jobs this week, laid off most of Halo Studios and moved Rare, World's Edge and Obsidian to new parents. Anyone planning around Game Pass or Xbox hardware now has to sort their commitments by what Microsoft has actually decided.
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Matt Booty's memo to Xbox staff moves Halo out of the studio built to make it, folds Rare and World's Edge into Activision, and leaves Ninja Theory in consultation on a proposed closure.
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Kotaku's sources say the MindsEye developer is closing permanently, and the most detailed public account so far comes from a talent acquisition partner writing that he will see the company through to the very end.
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