Earlier this year, data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/microsofts-layoffs-to-top-9000-people-impacting-around-4-percent-of-the-firms-entire-workforce-we-continue-to-implement-organizational-changes-necessary-to-best-position-the-company” target=”_blank” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/microsofts-layoffs-to-top-9000-people-impacting-around-4-percent-of-the-firms-entire-workforce-we-continue-to-implement-organizational-changes-necessary-to-best-position-the-company”>Microsoft laid off over 9,000 employees across the company, with every wing affected — including data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox” target=”_blank” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox”>Xbox and several developers under its Xbox Game Studios publishing division, leading to the cancelation of several titles that were a work-in-progress.
Impacted games included data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/xbox-game-cancellations-july-2025″ target=”_blank” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/xbox-game-cancellations-july-2025″>Rare’s new IP Everwild as well as The Elder Scrolls Online-maker ZeniMax Online’s new MMO, and tragically, data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/microsoft-is-closing-down-xbox-studio-the-initiative” target=”_blank” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/microsoft-is-closing-down-xbox-studio-the-initiative”>the Perfect Dark reboot as well. Microsoft also shut down the studio it formed in 2018 to make Perfect…
