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Amidst Xbox job cuts and Microsoft’s AI push, Matt Turnbull promotes AI tools for helping manage layoffs
Microsoft, amidst layoffs impacting the Xbox division and heavy AI investments, saw Xbox Game Studios Publishing executive ...
AI Is Not in the Memo, but It Haunts Every Layoff at Xbox
Microsoft’s Xbox division just laid off thousands of employees, shut down an entire game studio, and canceled multiple ...
Xbox Invites Developers To AI Roundtable The Same Day It Does Mass Layoffs
We are excited to be heading to Gamescom 2025 in Cologne, Germany, again this year! If you will also be attending, we are ...
Xbox was funding Romero Games' new game, but layoffs have left the project in crisis
The news was initially confirmed in a statement signed by Brenda Romero and posted on X. “Last night, we learned that our ...
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Xbox layoffs: Microsoft closes studio The Initiative, cancels Perfect Dark, Everwild, and unannounced projects
Update 3, July 2, 2025: Microsoft is reportedly closing The Initiative, and cancelling the Perfect Dark reboot that was fully ...
'Not anytime soon': Microsoft shuts down rumours of Xbox Chief Phil Spencer retiring amid mass layoffs
Rumours swirled after sweeping layoffs and game cancellations, but Microsoft says Phil Spencer isn’t stepping away.
Even before the Xbox layoffs, there was 'tension' at Halo Studios
At least five employees at Halo Studios have been fired as part of company-wide layoffs at Microsoft on Wednesday, according ...
Xbox Execs Reportedly Raved About ‘Blade Runner Meets Destiny 2’ Loot Shooter Before Canceling It
According to Bloomberg ’s sources, Spencer was so enamored with the game when he played it in March that Head of Xbox Game ...