Perfect Dark and Everwild reportedly cancelled as Microsoft lays off up to 9000

[CaptainExplosion]

SvennoJ said:

CaptainExplosion said:

Either that or it's so their CEO can afford a golden toilet or some other frivolous piece of shit.

Both :/



https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/xbox-bet-that-game-pass-would-be-the-future-of-gaming-and-were-all-paying-for-it/

By all appearances, 2025 was going to be the year Xbox turned things around. Doom: The Dark Ages, no less than three new games from Obsidian Entertainment, Indiana Jones on PS5, another post-acquisition Call of Duty, and the absolute whopper of The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered. After two years of mass layoffs and studio closures, it seemed like things had calmed down.

Nope: Last week's layoffs of 9,100 people company-wide at Microsoft, with a chunk of those at Xbox, joined the layoffs of 6,000 employees in May. With the 10,000 laid off at the beginning of 2023 and 2,500 after the Activision Blizzard acquisition went through last year, that's 27,600 lives upended by Microsoft in two and a half years.

Some obvious questions arise from this destructiveness. Why did Microsoft gobble up so many studios only to cancel their apparently promising games, like the Blizzard survival game that employees were hyped about, or the ZeniMax MMO that even Microsoft Gaming head Phil Spencer himself reportedly liked? And why should the employees of a company making billions in profit have to be in constant fear that they're next on the chopping block? Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's executive compensation rose 63% in 2024 to $79 million.
 

Nadella's a massive cocksucker. -_-