Microsoft announces Xbox Game Studios cuts, affecting 4 studios

Xbox Spins Off Compulsion Games, Double Fine Productions, Undead Labs, And Ninja Theory While Blade Maker Arkane Reviews ‘Potential Strategic Options’

A number of Xbox studios are leaving as part of a larger shake-up under new boss Asha Sharma

If Xbox Kills Game Pass, What Will It Have Left?

Collaborations between Xbox Game Pass and outside developers are reportedly going on a “pause” — which could be a serious problem for the future of the Xbox brand. According to reporting from Twisted Voxel, several third-party developers and publishers who had been in active negotiations with Microsoft for Xbox Game Pass deals “got the rug []

XBox Boss Admits Game Pass Was a Failure for Microsoft While Announcing Mass Layoffs

Microsoft's gaming division is undergoing the biggest shakeup in Xbox history. According to the company's new leadership, the business model that bet on Game Pass, multi-platform, and a broader portfolio of content ultimately failed to deliver a healthy business. The post XBox Boss Admits Game Pass Was a Failure for Microsoft While Announcing Mass Layoffs appeared first on That Park Place.

XBOX is Laying Off 1600 Employees Today, and That's Just the Beginning

Four studios are leaving XBOX, with the future of a fifth still up in the air.

Another giant US company is looking to expand into gaming claims report

The company behind Minions and streaming service Peacock is considering a move into the video game business, but are they serious about taking Xbox's place?

First Footage From Warner Bros. and DC Studios’ ‘Dynamic Duo’ Promises Boldest Superhero Tale Since ‘Into the Spider-Verse’

The “Dynamic Duo” approaches. Warner Bros. Pictures Animation showed off the first footage from the upcoming project – a collaboration between WBPA, Matt Reeves’ production company 6th and Idaho, DC Studios and New Orleans-based animation studio Swaybox Studios (which Warner Bros. now owns a controlling interest in) – during their WBPA presentation at the 2026 []

Xbox to lay off over 3,000 staff and divest five game studios

Microsoft has announced a major restructuring of its XBOX gaming division, confirming widespread layoffs alongside significant changes to its first-party studio lineup. The move will see four XBOX Game Studios developers leave Microsoft’s internal portfolio, although none have been confirmed as closing. According to an internal email from XBOX CEO Asha Sharma, Compulsion Games, the [] Source

Xbox Layoffs Means 32 Percent Of Phil Spencer's Acquisitions Are Gone

Eight of the studios that Xbox acquired under Phil Spencer are no longer part of the company. That's not even counting those sent into the COD mines.

The biggest news and reveals from Annecy Animation Festival

The latest from DC Comics Animation, Adult Swim, Cartoon Network, Crunchyroll, Pixar, Disney, and more

Microsoft Slashes 4,800 Jobs as Xbox Loses Four Studios in Historic Restructure

Microsoft cut 4,800 jobs on Monday and began divesting four Xbox game studios, as CEO Asha Sharma declared the gaming division 'not healthy' after years of declining margins. The restructure eliminates roughly one in five Xbox positions through fiscal 2027 and marks the largest upheaval in the division's 25-year history.

Xbox Game Pass deals are reportedly drying up, and that’s bad news for indies

Xbox Game Pass has long been a safety net for indie developers, but that may be changing. Industry chatter suggests new deals are on hold as Microsoft reevaluates its gaming strategy.

SDCC ’26: the show floor map has arrived with a few changes

A few notable companies have returned to the show floor, and a few other changes as the 2026 SDCC show floor map has just been unveiled

New Games Gallery 7/3/26!!

New Games Gallery 7/3/26!!

Xbox claim they're "not reducing [their] investment in games" despite looming cuts, as report claims under 2.5% of Microsoft's total workforce are in the firing line

Despite yesterday bringing more news of Xbox backing out of funding deals and considering putting studios on the chopping block, the company insist such moves aren't a sign that the mass cuts they've reportedly got in the works are a sign of them scaling back how much cash they're pumping into making games. At the same time, a new report claims that the layoffs wider Microsoft have planned are projected to affect less than 2.5 of the corp's overall workforce, not that that'll soften the blow by any stretch of the imagination. Read more

Microsoft announces Xbox layoffs, cutting several game studios

Microsoft announces Xbox layoffs, cutting several game studios

UK government weighs intervention in Warner Bros. Discovery-Paramount merger

The Warner Bros. Discovery-Paramount merger has hit a potential roadblock after the UK government announced it is taking a closer look into the transaction. “Following engagement with the parties and independent research, my Department has today written to the current and proposed owners of Warner Bros. Discovery on my behalf to inform them that I

Microsoft Is Eliminating 4,800 Jobs — Including 20% of Its Xbox Staff: ‘We Will Return to Growth in 2027.’

Four gaming studios — including Double Fine Productions and Ninja Theory — are going independent as part of the restructuring.

Hideo Kojima’s Horror Game OD Is Reportedly Safe From Xbox’s Reset Plan

Xbox has made major changes to its company lately. From removing AI from their consoles to lowering the prices of

Joint The Witcher 4 and CD Projekt Red CEO says fully AI-generated games are coming, but he has "some doubts whether this is really the path to follow"

Joint The Witcher 4 and CD Projekt Red CEO says fully AI-generated games are coming, but he has "some doubts whether this is really the path to follow"

Xbox Pulls Out of ‘Project Fantasy’ Video Game From IO Interactive; Hideo Kojima’s ‘OD’ Still in the Works

Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox division has backed out of a deal with IO Interactive to fund and publish a new game, as the company re-evaluates investment decisions. IO Interactive, the maker of “Hitman” and popular new release “007 First Light,” plans to continue to develop the game, which has the code name “Project Fantasy.” However, the []

Microsoft to lay off 4,800 after getting 2,273 foreign worker visas

A popular U.S.-based gaming brand owned by Microsoft is facing fury after mass employee layoffs occurred in the wake of the company being approved for thousands of foreign worker visas. Microsoft announced that it will lay off 4,800 people total and 1,600 from the corporation’s XBOX division, which makes and sells the dominant video game []...Click to read more

Bethesda union blasts Microsoft as Xbox layoffs hit the Fallout and Elder Scrolls studio, too: "When will this cycle of cuts in pursuit of ever-greater profits end?"

Bethesda union blasts Microsoft as Xbox layoffs hit the Fallout and Elder Scrolls studio, too: "When will this cycle of cuts in pursuit of ever-greater profits end?"

Microsoft guts Xbox: 3,200 jobs cut and five studios divested, two of them European

Microsoft told its Xbox staff the truth in blunt terms: the business “is not healthy.” The fix? 3,200 job cuts, five studios out the door, two of them European. Xbox chief executive Asha Sharma laid it out in an official memo on Monday. She called it the most significant restructure in the division’s history. Xbox [] This story continues at The Next Web

Xbox raises console prices by up to $150 starting August

And they were doing so well, too! This must be part of that brand revitalization Xbox — oh, sorry, XBOX — has been bragging about since getting a new CEO. Stop me if you've heard this one before: the rising cost of components, propelled by the completely pointless AI boom, is forcing consumer hardware manufacturers to up their prices. — Read the rest The post Xbox raises console prices by up to 150 starting August appeared first on Boing Boing.