Xbox layoffs
Xbox's First COO Helen Chiang Exits After Three Months - What the Empty Seat Means for the Reset
Xbox's first standalone COO, Helen Chiang, left Microsoft on 23 October 2026 after roughly three months in the job, with no successor named as Asha Sharma's reset continues.
Gears of War: E-Day Review - A Franchise Triumph Launching Into Xbox's Darkest Hour
There is a particular kind of tragedy in watching something good arrive at the worst possible moment. Gears of War: E-Day is precisely that: a critically praised, technically stunning return to form...
Gears of War: E-Day Story Director Laid Off Days After Going Gold - What It Means for Xbox
Gears of War: E-Day Went Gold. Four Days Later, Its Story Director Was Gone. On September 17, 2026, Juan Vaca did what every game developer dreams of doing. As story director on Gears of War: E-Day...
Microsoft CEO Calls Xbox Layoffs 'Great to See' - The Tone-Deaf Optimism Behind Gaming's Biggest Restructure
What Satya Nadella Actually Said, and Why It Landed So Badly According to secondary reporting, Nadella's comment referenced "some amount of streamlining Asha is doing... which is great to see."...
Halo Studios' Cinematic Director Was Promoted and Laid Off in the Same Week: Inside Xbox's 268-Person Reset
"Promoted and laid off in the same week is pretty wild." That is how Josh Daniels, until recently the cinematic director at Halo Studios, summarized his own week on LinkedIn. In a single...
Undead Labs Went Independent From Xbox - Then Cut the Devs Building State of Decay 3 Within 24 Hours
Undead Labs Went Independent From Xbox, Then Cut Its Own Developers Within 24 Hours Undead Labs told the world it had escaped Xbox's restructuring by becoming an independent, employee-owned studio....
Gears of War: E-Day Loses Story Director Juan Vaca to Xbox Layoffs One Week Before Early Access
A game goes gold, and the studio celebrates. Four days later, the person who led its story is out of a job. Roughly a week before players were set to log into Gears of War: E-Day, story director Juan...
The Elder Scrolls 6 Roadmap Is “Unaffected” by Layoffs - But Staff Tell a Different Story
The Reassurance: What Bethesda Actually Said MrMattyPlays, a longtime Elder Scrolls content creator, posed the question to Bethesda in the wake of the July 2026 layoffs. The response was unambiguous:...
The Elder Scrolls Online's Crown Store Feels the Sting of Xbox Layoffs - A Self-Inflicted Wound
When ESO players check the official website next month, they won’t find the Crown Store Showcase blog. That seemingly small change is the most visible symptom of a much larger, more ironic problem....
Doom Director Hugo Martin Defends id Software After Layoffs: “What Matters Most Is That the Games Are Good”
As part of Microsoft’s sweeping 3,200-job cuts, id Software lost 136 people, more than half its workforce, the day before launching a new Doom: The Dark Ages expansion. Laid-off employees gathered...