Bethesda HR Forced Staff To Remove Small Memorial To Laid-Off Colleagues

Bethesda HR Forced Staff To Remove Small Memorial To Laid-Off Colleagues

The Bethesda Games Studios Union shared images of the now-removed display featuring photos of fired devs

Bethesda Job Cuts: HR Removed Memorial for Laid-Off Staff

Employees at Bethesda Game Studios' headquarters in Rockville, Maryland, were reportedly instructed by Human Resources to remove a small memorial honoring colleagues laid off in Xbox's latest round of job cuts, according to the Bethesda Game Studios Union.The incident comes just days after Microsoft began another major round of job cuts across its gaming division, affecting thousands of employees and leading to canceled projects, studio restruct…

Fallout and Elder Scrolls union says Bethesda layoffs didn't hurt Microsoft's "14 layers of management" – "We lost dozens of programmers, artists, designers and testers"

While Microsoft's seemingly unending spree of Xbox layoffs has often swept right over core tentpole studios like Fallout and Elder Scrolls maker Bethesda Game Studios, this week's historic downsizing was different. Among 3,200 cut jobs – 1,600 of which were eliminated immediately – Elder Scrolls Online studio ZeniMax Online, Avowed and Pentiment developer Obsidian, and Doom studio id Software were all impacted by significant cuts. Perhaps most s…

Bethesda layoffs include the artist responsible for designing Skyrim's khajiit and argonians, who had been at the company for 27 years

If you've played a new Elder Scrolls game anytime since 2002, you've seen Christiane Meister's work: The senior character artist spent 27 years at Bethesda, contributing to games from Morrowind to Skyrim. As of this week's round of Xbox layoffs, however, her tenure is over.The news came to my attention via a post by Lady Nerevar on Bluesky, though I double-checked Meister's LinkedIn and, sure enough, she is currently looking for work: "I was in …

The Elder Scrolls 6 could be affected by redundancies, union warns

The Elder Scrolls 6 could be affected by Microsoft's layoffs