Microsoft is selling off four Xbox studios as part of significant gaming cuts
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma at the Bloomberg Tech conference in June 2026. | Bloomberg via Getty Images Microsoft is laying off 4,800 employees today, and
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma at the Bloomberg Tech conference in June 2026. | Bloomberg via Getty Images Microsoft is laying off 4,800 employees today, and more than 30 percent of the job losses are in the company's Xbox division.
The significant gaming cuts will affect nearly every part of Xbox and also involve four game studios being spun off to be run independently from Microsoft. Today's layoffs, which are being described as an Xbox "reset" moment, will impact around 1,600 Xbox employees, according to an internal memo from Xbox CEO Asha Sharma.
The cuts won't end today though, as Microsoft is planning to eliminate a total of around 20 percent of Xbox jobs by the end of
the financial year in July 2027. Double Fine and Compulsion Games are … Read the full story at The Verge.
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