Claims: ‘I feel like I’m grieving’: staff on the devastating fallout of widespread layoffs at Xbox
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- title: ‘I feel like I’m grieving’: staff on the devastating fallout of widespread layoffs at Xbox Source
- url: https://www.theguardian.com/games/2026/sep/01/xbox-layoffs-microsoft Source
- summary: Last month, Microsoft’s gaming division told its workforce it was cutting 3,200 jobs, which some say will have big ramifications for game development – as well as taking a huge personal toll On the morning of 6 July, an email went out from Asha Sharma, the chief executive of Xbox, to all of the division’s employees around the world. Under the headline “ Resetting Xbox ”, it announced the most significant restructuring in the history of Microsoft’s console business: 3,200 staff would be laid off… Source
- published: Tue, 01 Sep 2026 09:00:04 GMT Source