Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. The recent and massive layoffs at Microsoft are further proof that big gaming budgets have been unsustainable for far too long.

While tech giants are laying off workers in 2025, economists say companies are more bullish on hiring in 2025 than years' past.

Microsoft has reportedly made another round of layoffs, this time affecting a "small" number of employees spanning its security, experiences and devices, sales, and gaming divisions. That's ...

The layoffs will affect Microsoft’s gaming, security, and sales divisions. This latest round of layoffs was first reported by Business Insider and CNBC, who received confirmation from a ...

Video game companies that enacted layoffs in 2024 included Microsoft (which acquired Activision ... Among the other major findings in the survey was the increase in developers concerned about ...

Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. Back when the Xbox 360 launched, Microsoft pushed the big budget game as a differentiator. Following all the recent layoffs ...

What’s even more surprising is that Microsoft rewarded its Gaming division, which includes its Xbox and first-party developers Activision, Blizzard, ZeniMax and others, with layoffs in January.

and gaming. Microsoft confirmed the layoffs to PCMag but didn't say exactly how many people are being let go. It described the number of job losses as "very small" and separate from the ...

Microsoft's Xbox division is going through another round of layoffs. According to a company-wide email sent by the CEO of Microsoft Gaming, Phil Spencer, the role eliminations are to ensure a ...

Microsoft, Google, Meta, even Peloton all saw the pandemic as a sea change. Though it changed many things, the rebound has shown the changes to be less dramatic ... Some of the layoffs we've ...

The earliest round of Microsoft’s 10,000 layoffs happened Wednesday, with employees in the areas of marketing, advertising, recruiting, gaming and mixed reality among those to publicly report ...