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Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees (www.theverge.com)
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[–] june@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Curious for a source on that

[–] Defaced@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

https://publish.obsidian.md/vg-layoffs/Archive/2024 not sure if this is what you're looking for but someone has been tracking overall video game layoffs for the past 3 years. 2023 was approximately 10,600, we're halfway there at 5600 in 2024 and it's only been a month. That's pretty fucked.