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In an interview with the Chris Plant in 2024, just a few months after the Xbox dismissed 1,900 employees in a shock, Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer said that the best way to stop more passengers in the video game industry was to ensure the shareholders of big studios. And his most logical way, he informed, was with the holiday.
Spencer said, “The thing that has worried me the most for the industry is the lack of growth.” “When you have an industry that is likely to be smaller next year in terms of players and dollars, and you get many public trading companies that are in the industry that have to show their investors – because if no one has part of anyone’s stock, if it is not developing?
They say that it is the natural and irreparable reality of life. Sure The company has to grow constantly. Apparently The studio meets its shareholders above all. The only way Rising numbers is to reduce costs, which means to reduce the headquarters. And spanser is just a man with a bit loads graphic t, who, who, ClearlyMake every effort to make these investors, its fellow executives and themselves rich. Poor man
“We are a business,” said Spencer. Multi. “I have repeatedly said. I do not find any luxury of running a profitable business inside Microsoft. And we are today. But only in this industry – you mentioned it, and sitting here in the GDC, I consider my friends in this industry where their people are not homeless, where their homelessness is not a place. A place where people cannot trust, where people should not trust, where people should not trust, where people should not trust, where people should not trust, where people should not trust.
He has already said the answer – holidays – but it flies directly to his stated desire to build a stable market where his friends can progress, so he loses his snake and sees its search, never considers the question itself.
Fast forward on July 2, 2025. Microsoft left 9,000 people in its global workforce, and the Xbox Division’s loss of thousands of jobs, the closure of several studio and the cancellation of the remarkable game was shaken. This news has surfaced in the memo, dismissed employees ‘social media posts and updates of LinkedIn status, and I talked to someone about the situation in the Hello Studios about the developers’ mood. Overall, it has been a lot of tracking. The result of all reported here is, as it stands on July 8:
Studio’s Skip.
Blizzard: Reduce; Warkraft rimble Sunset
Hello Studios: Holidays affecting at least five people; We published a first account of stress in the studio
Behind: Studio closed; Perfect black Remack canceled
King: Holidays affecting approximately 200 people, 10 % of the studio
Rare: Reduce; Creative director and Banju-Kazoi Creator Greg Meils are out after 35 years. Ever Weld Cancellation
Raven Software: Slow.
Slage Hammer Game: Slow.
Twist 10: Fourza Motor Support The team was fired and closed. Turning 10 is now A Forza horizon Support Studio
Zenmex Online Studios: The studio’s headmate frever has been out after 18 years. Blackbird Cancellation
Reported the game’s cancellation
Spencer said in 2024 and this is still true today: Xbox division is growing, which has increased the revenue from Xbox content and services by eight percent in the first three months of 2025. Still, for employees, it does not feel stable.
This situation is not unique for Microsoft, either: In May, Electronic Arts canceled it Black Panther The game and it stopped creating the studio, and then after the previous cooling in the Response, which included a new title of Titan Fall, as well as the holidays of years in the biopower. Meanwhile, EA CEO Andrew Wilson got more than $ 25 million in 2024 fiscal year. According to the GDC’s 2025 State of the Game Industry Survey, in 2024, 11 % of the industry’s developers were released. Statista reports that the global sports market will once again grow in 2025, which will generate more than $ 522 billion.
Holidays are a cruel solution to a shameful question, and at the moment, they form a backbone of the AAA industry. The world’s largest studios work on a bench and a bicycle, which includes acquisitions, cranchs and holidays. These cadins are only suffering from chaos as additional factors, such as AI and stability, are changing to reduce the number of renting and rent. In Microsoft, the use of the company’s Co -Pilot AI toolset is “no longer optional” for employees, and as a worker told me, “they are trying their best to replace more jobs with AI agents.”
Such methods have helped advance unity efforts throughout the industry, including Xbox studios.
“We are very disappointed with thousands of Microsoft workers, including CWA members representing the union, to decide to prosper the company.” He added, “Right now, we are going through a moment of deep corporate stability and disruption. In such times, union organizing is not just a source of reservations at work. It is essential for the survival of the workers, and we have a strongest defense against the non -proud corporate power.”
In addition to this recent period of 9,000. In addition to this recent period, Microsoft fired 6,000 people in its divisions in May. The Xbox class, especially in 2024, got rid of more than 2500 employees, and Microsoft closed Archin Austin, Alpha Dog Games and the Tango Game Works (though Krafton finally discovered Tango for himself). Scattered shots of closures, cancellations and pellets, such as productive and low-overhead studios, interesting new projects, and multiple proven Xenimx teams, such as Blackbird. It creates the idea that Microsoft is always more interested in controlling the IP of these studios that helps the manufacturers there.
Holidays are the answer to this question, “How does this industry return to development?” Massive firing is not the work of artistic integrity or technological innovation, and they are in fact against the process of making fresh and powerful video games. I have never asked myself how as a player or a critic, the industry’s profits can increase. People have only a small and extremely specific group, and they don’t talk for me. Unfortunately, they move forward for all of us.
Information
Heldors 2 Will hit the Xbox this summer
Heldors 2 On August 26, it is heading to the Xbox, ending his tenure as a PlayStation 5 console after a year. Heldors 2 The aeros Head Game Studios was developed and published by the PlayStation, so it was not guaranteed that the Xbox platform came to the platform. To be clear, the reason will not be included in the game pass at any time. After resolving its launch problems in the early 2024, Heldors 2 With selling more than 15 million copies in PC and PS5, a major player base of interglaocratic Freedom Fighters has been quietly constructed.
Nile Dickman is coming home
The co -founder of the naughty Dogs, Neil Dirkman is retreating from the development of HBO The last of us Television series to focus on re -playing. Dirkman is a co -creator of the show and has recently been spending his time to help HBO prepare and write it, but now that the second season is done, he is returning his attention to the studio that has started it all.
“Now it’s time for me to move the naughty dog and its future plans to move the center of full focus, including writing and instructing our interesting next game, Integalic: Religious Prophets“He said in a statement. Welcome, Drakman – as the editor of the Ingjit Deputy News, Nathan Ingham said,” The video game industry is happy to see you again. “
Former Obesif Executives in France
Former Yubisoft executives Thomas Francois, Serge Haskot and Gallom Patrick were convicted of promoting a toxic workplace in France with a lot of sexual and psychological abuse. Former Chief Creative Officer Haaskot was sentenced to 18 months in prison, suspended, and Patrics received a 12 -month suspended period. Francois was convicted of additional sexual abuse and was sentenced to three years suspended. This has led to a multi -year investigation by French authorities of a toxic and gender harassment in Ubesoft.
Yétei’s past Showcase on Thursday
Soccer Punch will show about 20 minutes Yétei’s past Game Play Thursday, July 10, 5pm during a dedicated game program at 5pm. I can’t wait to see this wind Transmit.
End, Time flies
I am looking forward to Time flies Since I went on my way through the demo in the Summer Game Fest 2022. It is a funny small game that provokes controversial ideas about human existence and force players to find happiness in small moments, and it is finally coming to PC, switch and PS5 on July 31. Whenever you have some time to kill, make sure.
AI helps you to carry a partner, which was not discharged
Two days after the news of the microsoft breakdown, the Xbox Game Studios Publishing Executive Producer Matt Turn Bill on the LinkedIn offer to help reduce the employment to reduce the employment with the help of “LLM Al -Tolls (such as chatigpt or pilot).” Its suggested indicators include, “draft a friendly message that I can send to older workers, let them tell them that I am looking for new opportunities,” and, “I am struggling with the Impasser Syndrome after leaving. Do you appreciate this experience? The Toniv post was fulfilled with proper ridicule and rapidly removed.
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