Yesterday, Xbox game developers held coordinated “Save Our Devs” rallies across nine cities in the United States and Canada on August 18, organized by the OneBGS union (representing Bethesda Game Studios) alongside the Communications Workers of America (CWA), in protest of the wave of layoffs that recently swept through Microsoft’s gaming division like a whirlwind. The Scale of the Cuts The rallies respond to Microsoft’s announcement of roughly 3,200 planned Xbox job cuts, with the first phase already having eliminated 1,600 positions and the remaining cuts expected to hit before the middle of 2027. CWA-represented Xbox workers now total nearly […]
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