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Microsoft’s constant layoffs risk creating a culture of fear

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-07-18 14:00:00

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. I can’t open LinkedIn without seeing a new post from a Microsoft employee who lost their job in the company’s latest round of layoffs. Around 15,000 jobs have been eliminated at Microsoft over the past couple months — the biggest cuts at the company in more than a decade. I’ve spoken to more than a dozen Microsoft employees in recent weeks, and everyone is concerned about the

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Virtuos, the studio behind Oblivion Remastered, is laying off around 270 employees

engadget.com Unknown 2025-07-21 02:57:22

It said teams 'facing lower occupancy and slower demand due to structural shifts in the industry' would bear the brunt of the cuts. Virtuos, the studio that developed The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered, is laying off seven percent of its staff, or around 270 employees. Gauthier Andres, a reporter and co-founder at Origami, was first to report the news, which the studio later confirmed. Virtuos has provided support on a number of large game projects — including a recent patch for Cyberpunk

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Virtuos, the studio behind Oblivion Remastered, is reportedly laying off staff

engadget.com Unknown 2025-07-22 15:57:14

Virtuos, the studio that developed The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered, is reportedly laying off seven percent of its staff, or around 300 employees, according to Gauthier Andres, a reporter and co-founder at Origami. The studio has provided support on a number of large game projects — including a recent patch for Cyberpunk 2077 — and employs over 4,200 people across the US, Europe and Asia. The brunt of the layoffs are happening to Virtuos employees in China, where Andres reports that aro

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Laid off Candy Crush studio staff reportedly replaced by the AI tools they helped build

engadget.com Unknown 2025-07-25 02:41:41

Microsoft’s extensive gaming portfolio was hit hard by sweeping layoffs earlier this month. The situation appears to have been particularly galling for staff at Candy Crush developer King who are reportedly set to be replaced by AI tools they worked on. Multiple anonymous sources have told MobileGamer.biz that a number of narrative, UX, level design and user research staffers at King have spent several years helping to build and train AI models that can do their jobs more quickly. Those same em

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Microsoft shares $500M in AI savings internally days after cutting 9,000 jobs

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-08-02 07:06:01

Microsoft’s chief commercial officer Judson Althoff said during a presentation this week that AI tools are boosting productivity across sales, customer service, and software engineering, Bloomberg reports. Althoff noted AI has been so useful that Microsoft was able to save more than $500 million last year in its call center alone. The internal remarks come a week after Microsoft laid off more than 9,000 workers, the company’s third round of layoffs this year that put the total number of affecte

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Video Games Weekly: Every time this industry grows, it shrinks

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-04 15:40:20

Welcome to Video Games Weekly on Engadget. Expect a new story every Monday or Tuesday, broken into two parts. The first is a space for short essays and ramblings about video game trends and related topics from me, Jess Conditt, a reporter who's covered the industry for more than 13 years. The second contains the video game stories from the past week that you need to know about, including some headlines from outside of Engadget. Please enjoy — and I'll see you next week. In a 2024 interview wit

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The uncertain future of coding careers and why I'm still hopeful

news.ycombinator.com Jonathan Hoyt 2025-08-13 02:45:27

The Uncertain Future of Coding Careers and Why I'm Still Hopeful A friend of mine, bright, driven, and relatively new to programming, asked me a heavy question the other day. “Did I make a mistake? Did I choose the right career?” The question hung in the air. It wasn’t born from a bad day or a frustrating bug. It came from a much deeper place of anxiety, one that I suspect many in our industry are feeling right now. They saw recent waves of layoffs, they read the headlines about Artificial Int

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The Uncertain Future of Coding Careers and Why I'm Still Hopeful

news.ycombinator.com Jonathan Hoyt 2025-08-13 12:45:27

The Uncertain Future of Coding Careers and Why I'm Still Hopeful A friend of mine, bright, driven, and relatively new to programming, asked me a heavy question the other day. “Did I make a mistake? Did I choose the right career?” The question hung in the air. It wasn’t born from a bad day or a frustrating bug. It came from a much deeper place of anxiety, one that I suspect many in our industry are feeling right now. They saw recent waves of layoffs, they read the headlines about Artificial Int

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Xbox Hit With Layoffs and Game Cancellations as Microsoft Cuts 9,000 Jobs

wired.com Megan Farokhmanesh 2025-08-14 10:33:29

Major layoffs are rolling across Microsoft today, impacting game developers within Xbox across several studios and the projects they’re working on, even as an executive at the company told staff more gamers are playing Xbox than ever before. According to The Seattle Times, 9,000 employees, or 4 percent of Microsoft’s workforce, are affected by the cuts, which started Wednesday morning. The full scope of layoffs within Microsoft’s gaming divisions are still unknown. “We continue to implement or

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Xbox Hit With Layoffs and Game Cancelations as Microsoft Cuts 9,000 Jobs

wired.com Megan Farokhmanesh 2025-08-14 15:33:29

Major layoffs are rolling across Microsoft today, impacting game developers within Xbox across several studios and the projects they’re working on, even as an executive at the company told staff more gamers are playing Xbox than ever before. According to The Seattle Times, 9,000 employees, or 4 percent of Microsoft’s workforce, are affected by the cuts, which started Wednesday morning. The full scope of layoffs within Microsoft’s gaming divisions are still unknown. “We continue to implement or

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Microsoft’s Forza Motorsport developer hit hard by Xbox cuts

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-08-14 15:08:25

Microsoft announced layoffs today affecting as many as 9,000 employees, and as part of the changes, more than 70 people will be let go at Forza Motorsport developer Turn 10 Studios, according to a source familiar with the situation. The cuts were made on a call with Microsoft HR representatives this morning, and are hitting the “vast majority” of the studio. One source described the layoffs as leaving enough people behind to keep Forza Motorsport up and running. Managers at Turn 10 didn’t disc

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Microsoft planning ‘major’ Xbox layoffs next week

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-08-28 19:17:05

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is planning to cut jobs in the company’s Xbox gaming business, as early as next week. I first reported in Notepad earlier this month that Microsoft was planning Xbox layoffs “potentially by the end of the month,” and now Bloomberg says a round of “major layoffs” is due next week. I understand managers at Microsoft have been briefed about Xbox cuts and wider layoffs i

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Intel to lay off up to 20% of Intel Foundry workers

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-09-08 15:50:32

In Brief Intel will begin a new round of layoffs next month. The semiconductor giant plans to lay off 15% to 20% of workers in its Intel Foundry division starting in July, according to an internal memo originally reported on by The Oregonian. Intel Foundry designs, manufactures, and packages semiconductors for external clients. It’s unclear how many workers this will directly impact. Intel’s total workforce was 108,900 people as of December 2024, according to the company’s annual regulatory f

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Latest Tech News

Microsoft’s constant layoffs risk creating a culture of fear

Virtuos, the studio behind Oblivion Remastered, is laying off around 270 employees

Virtuos, the studio behind Oblivion Remastered, is reportedly laying off staff

Laid off Candy Crush studio staff reportedly replaced by the AI tools they helped build

Microsoft shares $500M in AI savings internally days after cutting 9,000 jobs

Video Games Weekly: Every time this industry grows, it shrinks

The uncertain future of coding careers and why I'm still hopeful

The Uncertain Future of Coding Careers and Why I'm Still Hopeful

Xbox Hit With Layoffs and Game Cancellations as Microsoft Cuts 9,000 Jobs

Xbox Hit With Layoffs and Game Cancelations as Microsoft Cuts 9,000 Jobs

Microsoft’s Forza Motorsport developer hit hard by Xbox cuts

Microsoft planning ‘major’ Xbox layoffs next week

Intel to lay off up to 20% of Intel Foundry workers

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