Microsoft's Gaming Division Faces Layoffs and Game Cancellations
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Oli Welsh
11mo ago· 6 min readenNews
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Summary
Microsoft made significant layoffs in its gaming division, including the cancellation of high-profile games like Rare's Everwild and The Initiative's reboot of Perfect Dark. This is part of a pattern of mismanagement in Microsoft's gaming studios.
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This time, the story has centered on the cancellation of two high-profile games that had been in development for a very long time: Rare’s Everwild, and The Initiative’s reboot of Perfect Dark, which took the whole studi
The latest Xbox layoffs, and the cancelation of Perfect Dark and Everwild, are about a long history of mismanagement, from Bungie to Lionhead
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