Xbox lays off 1,900 developers, cancels Blizzard's survival game
Microsoft is laying off 1,900 workers from its Xbox, ZeniMax Media, and Activision Blizzard teams, cancelling a Blizzard game in the process.
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Microsoft is laying off 1,900 workers from its Xbox, ZeniMax Media, and Activision Blizzard teams, cancelling a Blizzard game in the process.
Riot Games layoffs are the latest to impact workers in the video game industry, with 530 said to be losing their jobs in the move.
As Tencent's Riot Games announced it's laying off more than 500 employees globally, industry experts are left wondering how to create sustainability in gaming models that go beyond a dependency on ad spend.
The layoffs represent 11% of the company's global workforce.
Riot Games is the latest to cut jobs in the gaming industry after Amazon, ByteDance and Epic Games.