Against the backdrop of #Microsoft's mass #layoffs at its #Xbox division, the management advertises genAI workshops at #GamesCom and advises the fired #gamedevs to use AI to cope with the job loss.
If there is any way to appear more out of touch with reality, I can't think of any.
As Brandon Sheffield documented these messages over on BlueSky:
https://bsky.app/profile/brandon.insertcredit.com/post/3lt32s7t22k2r
https://bsky.app/profile/brandon.insertcredit.com/post/3lt4diia3xc2l
I cannot imagine anyone wanting to work for or with #Microsoft #Gaming and #Xbox again.
After all of the #layoffs in the last few months, the destruction of whatever goodwill they had earned over the years. It's like they said screw it, CoD is all we need.
If they don't want to make hardware or interesting games, then wtf do they actually want to make? Profit, I suppose.
Canning a Romero project is beyond bonkers.
MindsEye Dev's UK Workforce of Around 300 Receive At-Risk Emails as Former GTA Lead Leslie Benzies Finally Addresses Staff - IGN
｢ Benzies insisted BARB would bounce back and relaunch MindsEye, blaming the studio and the game’s struggles on internal and external saboteurs, among other things ｣
Dating Companies Bumble and Match Group Announce Layoffs
Layoffs are hitting some of the biggest names in online dating, seemingly confirming our earlier findings that online dating doesn't work.
https://www.freezenet.ca/dating-companies-bumble-and-match-group-announce-layoffs/
Microsoft is laying off around 9,000 people, and many of those cuts are expected to hit Xbox, with games being canceled and studios closed. @aftermath.site's Riley MacLeod takes a look at some of the industry veterans who have been caught in this decision: Matt Firor, who leaves Microsoft-owned Zeinmax after more than 18 years and started making games in the 1990s; Jon Knoles, who began his career working on "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" in 1991; Gregg Mayles, who was hired by Rare in 1989, and many more. "When [Microsoft gaming CEO] Phil Spencer writes in his layoff justification that 'we would not be where we are today without the time, energy, and creativity of those whose roles are impacted,' the people he’s speaking of weren’t just foundational to Microsoft, but to some of gaming’s earliest characters, studios, and systems.
Recently, Microsoft has been laying off employees at a rate of approximately 5,000 per month, and this trend is accelerating. Thus, my machine learning algorithm predicts that by 2027, the company will be run solely by the CEO and some AI.
#AI #layoffs #microsoft
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdxl0w1w394o
That is so fucked up. With every sentence this gets worse and worse.
DOOM co-creator John Romero’s entire Romero Games studio has been let go following Microsoft layoffs as Xbox cuts funding for new FPS - VideoGamer
Yeah, Xbox is definitely cooked!
No, I’m sorry!
Capitalism is fucking cooked!
More Xbox Layoffs Announced, Phil Spencer Claims They Were Necessary - GameSpot
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/xbox-layoffs-begin-with-200-cuts-in-europe-report/1100-6532905/
If there was any honor in capitalism, a company that lays off 100s or 1,000s of people would START with the CEO & the C-suite.
They should get the axe along with everyone else & receive no more than the same severance package they're giving all of the people whose lives & careers they just wrecked.
Why should anyone trust the same team who screwed up _so badly_ to somehow fix things and get the company moving in the right direction? It's absurd.
Microsoft To Cut 9,000 Staffers; Includes Gaming Division People #layoffs #microsoft #news
https://www.lowyat.net/2025/357680/microsoft-cut-9000-staffers-includes-gaming-division/
Not sure paying Copilot to cheat for you playing videogames was worth firing 9000 people.
MS math is really strange.
Another day of dodging the ghosts.
#microsoft
#layoffs
#Layoffs is now trending across Mastodon
Whatever happens at Microsoft Gaming right now is just a massacre.
Oh… I was afraid that I would read this next…
Microsoft also killed #Everwild.
I was so hyped for this. That's really sad. 
Oof. Microsofts "Quadruple A" studio is closing down due to the #Layoffs without ever releasing a game after 7 years.
I really wonder what is happening at #Xbox that pretty much everything is drastically hit by these cuts.
https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/microsoft-is-closing-down-xbox-studio-the-initiative
Maybe Microsoft should stop buying studios when they can't afford it.
#Microsoft #Layoffs #Gaming #Xbox https://mastodon.social/@Knoebel/114784274743536925
It’s hard to wrap my head around layoffs due to AI at Microsoft.
On one hand, they expect rocket science level LeetCode interviews to get a job, but on the other, they’re fine outsourcing things to vibe coders.
#microsoft #layoffs
To add insult to injury for the #gamedevs who lost their jobs...
> #Microsoft reported nearly $26 billion in net income on $70 billion in revenue for the March quarter. The numbers were well ahead of Wall Street's consensus, keeping MS ranked as one of the most profitable companies in the S&P 500 index, according to data compiled by FactSet.
> [...]
> MS stock closed at a record high of $497.45 per share on June 26.
From this article about the #Xbox #layoffs
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/business/money-report/microsoft-laying-off-about-9000-employees-in-latest-round-of-cuts/6323345/
