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As a teen, Emirhan Gül was a keen gamer, so he was thrilled to join a gaming startup in Istanbul as a developer after university. Over five months, as Turkey rode the wave of mobile gaming, he worked on the design of 23 games, and soon experienced burnout.

Actors have expressed concern over the future of Bangladesh’s entertainment industry, warning that declining local productions on television, the growing presence of dubbed foreign serials and a lack of policy support are shrinking employment opportunities for performers and other creative professionals.

Last month, Xbox executives laid out some “hard truths” about Microsoft’s struggling gaming division that they said would require a difficult “Xbox reset.” This morning, Microsoft revealed the brutal shape of that “reset,” announcing plans for 3,200 layoffs and the divestment of five smaller studios that the company has spent years acquiring and shepherding