'I cannot do my job when Microsoft refuses to do theirs', say Xbox union workers as destructive reset looms from a company that spent over $80 billion on AI last year

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Microsoft's likely got another wave of layoffs and studio closures coming, it's my displeasure to say—with multiple studios on the chopping block. It's another pip in a pattern of scattershot project cancellations and studio closures, in the same vein as the company shutting down Project Blackbird despite Phil Spencer loving it, or closing Tango Gameworks despite Hi-Fi Rush being touted as a success.

Basically, for Microsoft (and the wider industry at large) there's no real guarantee that good work will keep you in a job. And ...