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  2. Microsoft lays off another 650 in gaming division, bringing ...

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    Microsoft is making even more cuts to the staff roster of its Xbox gaming division.. The company on Thursday announced plans to lay off 650 employees, which will bring the total number of job ...

  3. Microsoft to lay off 1,900 employees in its gaming division

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    In the memo, Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer said that the layoffs were intended to minimize “areas of overlap.” NBC News has not reviewed the memo. In the memo, which was shared in full by ...

  4. Microsoft closes Austin-based Arkane Studios; 96 laid off ...

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    A WARN notice filed on May 7 details layoffs from Austin-based gaming company Arkane Studios where 96 employees no longer have jobs.. The company, which is owned by tech and gaming giant Microsoft ...

  5. 2023–2024 video game industry layoffs - Wikipedia

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    Including major job cuts from Embracer Group, Unity Technologies, Microsoft Gaming, Electronic Arts, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Epic Games, Take-Two Interactive, Ubisoft, Sega, and Riot Games. The layoffs caused several video games to be canceled, video game studios to be shut down or divested from their parent company, and thousands of ...

  6. Microsoft Gaming - Wikipedia

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    Microsoft Gaming is an American multinational video game and digital entertainment division of Microsoft based in Redmond, Washington established in 2022. Its five development and publishing labels consist of: Xbox Game Studios, Bethesda Softworks (publisher of ZeniMax Media), Activision, Blizzard Entertainment, and King (the latter three are publishers of Activision Blizzard). [2]

  7. List of mergers and acquisitions by Microsoft - Wikipedia

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    On December 31, 1997, Microsoft acquired Hotmail.com for $500 million (~$882 million in 2023), its largest acquisition at the time, and integrated Hotmail into its MSN group of services. [3] Hotmail, a free webmail service founded in 1996 by Jack Smith and Sabeer Bhatia, [4] had more than 8.5 million subscribers earlier that month. [5]

  8. Video game industry layoffs are a collision of trends [Video]

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    According to IDC, mobile game revenue shot up 32.8% to $99.9 billion in 2020, while digital PC and Mac game spending jumped 7.4% to 35.6 billion. Home console game spending, meanwhile, soared 33.9 ...

  9. FTC v. Microsoft - Wikipedia

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    Microsoft Corp. and Activision Blizzard, Inc. is a lawsuit brought against multinational technology corporation Microsoft and video game holding company Activision Blizzard in 2022. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sought a temporary injunction against Microsoft in its effort to acquire Activision Blizzard.