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Twenty percent of Xbox’s workforce is gone. CEO Asha Sharma confirmed in an internal memo that roughly 3,200 jobs will be eliminated over Microsoft’s fiscal 2027, with 1,600 cuts hitting immediately. The headline number isn’t the story. The story is what Sharma said next: Xbox lost 64 cents on every dollar it invested in content.…

On July 6, the official account of Yield Guild Games (YGG) and co-founder Gabby Dizon simultaneously issued a statement announcing the decision to shut down their game publishing division, YGG Play. The team plans to gradually take the platform and some games offline by July 31. 35 employees will receive an additional 8 weeks of…