3,200 Jobs Cut to 'Reset' Xbox, Company Lays Off over a Thousand Employees in 1 Day
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Microsoft's game console division is tight in the face of major challenges – and is taking action.
Microsoft’s new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma: Career, layoffs and Xbox reset explained
Asha Sharma has emerged as the new face of Xbox after taking over as CEO in February and launching the biggest restructuring in the gaming division’s history. The Microsoft executive has announced 3,200 job cuts, major leadership changes, and a renewed strategy to revive the Xbox brand.
According to reports, Xbox cuts about 3,200 jobs and separates from several studios. Developers react with shock and speak of a turning point.
Microsoft today runs the biggest cut in Xbox’s history. 3,200 workers lose their jobs, four video games studios change ownership, and the division’s CEO bluntly admits that the business “is not healthy.” Xbox CEO Asha Sharma published on July 6, 2026 a public memorandum confirming the layoffs. The total number affects employees of Activision, Bethesda/ZeniMax, Blizzard, King, Mojang and Xbox Game Studios. A thousand six hundred posts are elimina…
Xbox's Obsidian has reportedly lost a quarter of its workers to Microsoft's layoffs — the Fallout: New Vegas dev has a "huge list of projects" it's not sure how to continue
Original article: This week's huge wave of 4,800 layoffs across Microsoft have brought the largest ever series of cuts to Xbox in the brand's history, with 3,200 roles axed and four studios split away from the company (and with Microsoft also reportedly in talks with the French government to try and find a path forward for Marvel's Blade dev Arkane Lyon as well).Workers have been affected throughout Xbox teams and its first-party game developmen…
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