Friday, September 25th, 2026, 3:58 am
XBox is Collapsing, Microsoft Calls It ‘Reset’
Filed under: They’ll never admit the end goal
t seems abundantly clear that Microsoft is doing a ‘clearance’. Many remaining workers are removed, some pushed out to make it seem voluntary, and in some cases as many of 50% of staff (in a team) get culled [1-3].
This is Microsoft’s era ending.
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Age of Empires Dev Has Half of Studio Slashed, Project Cancelled Amid Xbox Layoffs
The future of Age of Empires dev World’s Edge appears to be hanging in the balance.
The studio – which has released Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition, Age of Empires 4: Anniversary Edition, and Age of Mythology: Retold all on the PS5 – was part of the latest round of Xbox redundancies, which saw the company cut another 268 jobs. (In addition to the 1,600 earlier in the year.)
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Microsoft’s Latest Round Of Layoffs May Have Killed A Brand New Age Of Empires Game
Piecing together comments from victims of Microsoft’s latest round of layoffs, it seems that we may have been due to see a new Age of Empires game. Not anymore, however, given the gutting of internal studio World’s Edge, the team that had overseen the production of the recent remasterings of Age of Empires and Age of Mythology titles. With the studio losing at least half its staff, seemingly including key figures like Adam Isgreen, and being moved into Activision’s domain, it appears that a new entry in the beloved RTS series might have been lost, too.
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Age of Empires studio’s next game canceled as part of Xbox layoffs
Xbox’s ongoing layoffs are so sweeping that we’re still piecing together the full picture. In early July, the company announced it would immediately cut 1,600 employees, with more layoffs in the next fiscal year. It also divested from several of its most acclaimed studios, including Double Fine and Ninja Theory. Many of the studios that survived faced significant cuts, with Doom developer id Software losing around half its employees.
