Microsoft has announced another wave of layoffs, starting with its European-based King subsidiary, the company behind Candy Crush. According to Bloomberg, Microsoft cut King staff by 10% (roughly 200 ...

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At the time of writing, Xbox is conducting layoffs across its massive workforce after spending billions to acquire dozens of studios and tens of thousands of workers. 9,100 workers across Microsoft ...

Yesterday, Xbox Game Studios head Craig Duncan shared updates on Microsoft’s upcoming games in a podcast with one of the heads in Microsoft’s marketing, Tina Amini. It was in this interview that ...

Microsoft’s (MSFT) layoffs aren’t just reducing manpower, but have reportedly also led to the cancellation of multiple long-running gaming projects, including ‘Everwild’ from Rare Studio and a new ...

Rare's next game was in development for over a decade Nintendo Windows Games Xbox Rather than doing the humane and dignified thing of telling thousands of people all at once whether or not they’re ...

O’Connor joins after 25 years at Rare, rising from animator to executive producer. At Rare, she led new IP Everwild before its cancellation during Microsoft’s mass layoffs. Plans for an Xbox mobile ...

Rare’s long-in-development game Everwild is no more, according to a report from Video Games Chronicle, citing sources at the studio. The enigmatic open-world adventure has been canceled, nearly six ...

July 2025 was a dark day for Microsoft's Xbox division. The company cut nearly 9,000 jobs, translating to roughly 4% of its entire workforce. That comes on the heels of Microsoft laying off over 7,000 ...