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Thousands of jobs are being eliminated at Microsoft’s Xbox unit as the company says its gaming business needs a fundamental reset, in what executives describe as the division’s biggest shake-up in 25 years

Microsoft’s Redmond headquarters, where the company that just cut 1,600 Xbox jobs remains one of the nation’s largest users of the H-1B foreign worker visa program. (Photo: Sean Gallup

We chat with Mike Futter from the Virtual Economy Podcast about Microsoft’s sad Xbox trajectory

Few people know more about helping run a successful console business than Shawn Layden. He was there at Sony when the PlayStation dream was first dreamt, and over the course of three decades he helped realise it and shape it. He was there for PlayStation 1, 2, 3, and 4. He helped lead the Japanese…

Valve’s PC storefront Steam continues to go from strength to strength. In the first half of 2026, it recorded its highest-ever results, generating an enormous $11.1bn in revenue, which is more than it made during the game-heavy end of last year, and considerably more than it made during the first half of 2025

Asha Sharma hasn’t slowed down since she became the new Xbox CEO. Not only is she planning on resetting the brand, but she’s been laying off and shutting down studios after saying that the company has run too thin. And now, Asha Sharms joins the Federal Reserve, being appointed as co-leader of the new Productivity…

Bethesda Game Studios union workers under the OneBGS banner will hold a ‘Save Our Devs’ march in protest of yet another round of mass layoffs across Xbox

The latest wave of layoffs at Microsoft’s Xbox which is set to cut a total of 3,200 jobs by July 2027 is set to have significant consequences across every studio still under the umbrella. id Software is among the developers that has been impacted the most, as not only 136 developers were laid off from…

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma is reportedly betting heavily on major Bethesda Game Studios franchises like The Elder Scrolls and Fallout, yet it is exactly the studios behind The Elder Scrolls that are among the most affected by the recent layoffs

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