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Microsoft Lays Off idTech Development Team at id Software Amid Xbox-Wide Cuts
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1h ago· 3 min readenNews
Summary
Microsoft has reportedly fired most or all of the idTech engine development team at id Software as part of massive layoffs across Xbox divisions. id Software is a legendary first-person genre developer whose idTech engine powers numerous games and game engines. This marks a potential end of an era for the influential technology.
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· 4 pulledid Software are without a doubt one of the most important game developers in the first person genre history.
The technology empowering their games, idTech powers a shocking number of games and even game engines
This era might be coming to a close as it's being reported that most, if not all, developers working on idTech at id Software have been fired.
This comes as part of the MASSIVE layoffs across all Xbox divisions.
Microsoft have fired most if not all of the team at id Software responsible for developing the idTech game engine during Xbox layoffs
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