The scale of Microsoft's brutal Xbox layoffs become clearer by the day. Among the studios that Xbox hasn't decided to dump from its portfolio entirely, we now know one of the outfits hit hardest by CEO Asha Sharma's "Xbox reset" was id Software.
The Doom studio, which just released a massive expansion for Doom: The Dark Ages this week, will lose 136 roles, according to WARN notices. It's a substantial downsizing that, according to laid-off VFX artist Derek Best (as spotted by VGC), has diminished the PC gaming institution to a "support studio size" overnight.
"I'm still in shock at how brutal the layoff cuts were," Best wrote on LinkedIn. "Collectively decades o...


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