- 4th major mass lay offs at Xbox in 18 months
  - The Initiative closed, Perfect Dark cancelled
  - Rare hit with layoffs, Everwild cancelled, Banjo Kazooie and Sea of Thieves Director leaves Rare
  - 50% of Turn 10 laid off
  - King and Zenimax hit with lay offs, new Zenmiax online IP cancelled
  - Multiple call of Duty Studios hit with lay offs
  - 50% of Xbox user research team laid off, head of child and family saftey laid off

Go woke go broke strikes again. Who would have thought that if you make games captured by identity politics with ugly unappealing female characters infused with bloated DEI HR polices[1], that nobody buys and loose investors money, would result in you loosing your job? No way!? /s

Meanwhile local indie and Asian game devs, especially from Korea and China, are giving gamers what they want and making bank. Hope Microsoft is cleaning house of activists that infiltrated the entertainment industry and putting gamers back in charge of developing games. Or, they can choose not to, and keep loosing money.

[1] https://thatparkplace.com/microsoft-recommends-game-develope...