Laid-off id Software artist says Microsoft is ‘nuking the team into the dirt’ and is now the size of a ‘support studio’

The scale of Microsoft’s brutal Xbox layoffs become clearer by the day. Among the studios that Xbox hasn’t decided to dump from its portfolio entirely, we now know one of the outfits hit hardest by CEO Asha Sharma’s “Xbox reset” was id Software. The Doom studio, which just released a massive expansion for Doom: The…

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Bethesda union says company HR forced staff to remove a display honoring their laid-off colleagues

Bethesda Game Studios reportedly suffered “significant” cuts during this week’s Xbox layoffs, which put 1,600 employees out of work across Microsoft’s gaming division as the initial wave of a sweeping reorganization scheme aiming to achieve 3,800 layoffs by the end of the company’s 2027 fiscal year. In the aftermath of Xbox’s bloodletting, the Bethesda Game…

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Bethesda union says company HR forced staff to remove a display honoring their laid-off colleagues

Bethesda Game Studios reportedly suffered “significant” cuts during this week’s Xbox layoffs, which put 1,600 employees out of work across Microsoft’s gaming division as the initial wave of a sweeping reorganization scheme aiming to achieve 3,800 layoffs by the end of the company’s 2027 fiscal year. In the aftermath of Xbox’s bloodletting, the Bethesda Game…

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Obsidian is reportedly making a new Fallout game headed by Josh Sawyer after Microsoft pulled the plug on an Avowed sequel

A Bloomberg report says Obsidian Entertainment, which was recently hit hard by mass layoffs at Xbox, has cancelled projects including a sequel to Avowed and will instead begin working on a new Fallout game. A California WARN report shared by GameFile says 52 employees at Obsidian were let go in the layoffs, which Bloomberg says…

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This month’s Humble Choice is worth a look if you like RPGs, Zelda-likes, fast-paced shooters, or violating people’s civil rights

Here’s a question that haunts me: are there people out there who actually keep a Humble Choice subscription going across multiple months? As far as I’m concerned, Humble Bundle’s monthly basket of games is just a bundle by another name. If the games are good, I drop some money, snag the keys, then cancel. The…

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Marvel Rivals’ Season 9 update will affect 80% of its roster as NetEase throws balance out the window for a more ‘fun’ approach to the game

Marvel Rivals will open the doors to the “most massive overhaul to the combat system since launch” that affects roughly 80% of its hero roster when Season 9 kicks off in a couple of days. There’s hero reworks, a massive change to Team-Ups, and a substantial ultimate charge nerf. The state of Marvel Rivals has…

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