unionized Xbox workers called for immediate bargaining following the layoff reports<\/a>, hosting a press conference to say \u201cwe’re done paying for executives’ failures.\u201d A Microsoft spokesperson told IGN it will continue to negotiate with the CWA to reach agreements across Xbox.<\/p>\n“We respect the right of our team members to make their voices heard,” the spokesperson said. “We have a long track record of good faith partnership with labor organizations, as demonstrated by the several finalized bargaining agreements our teams have reached with the CWA and our labor principles. We are continuing to negotiate in good faith with the CWA to reach agreements across Xbox.”<\/p>\n
Microsoft cut an eye-watering 9,000 staff in July 2025 in a company-wide round of layoffs that also hit gaming. A number of titles were canceled as part of those cuts, including Rare\u2019s Everwild, and studios shut down, such as Perfect Dark developer The Initiative. Staff who remain at Xbox are now bracing themselves for a potential repeat situation just a year later.<\/p>\n
Wesley is Director, News at IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source sea.ign.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Avowed and The Outer Worlds developer Obsidian is reportedly also at risk of closure amid Microsoft\u2019s \u201creset\u201d of the Xbox business. The Game Business listed the Microsoft-owned studio, which developed the much-loved Fallout: New Vegas, alongside State of Decay developer Undead Labs, Psychonauts developer Double Fine, Hellblade developer Ninja Theory, and South of Midnight developer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2484997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2484996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Obsidian-Entertainment-Reportedly-Also-at-Risk-of-Closure.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2484996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2484996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2484996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2484998,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2484996\/revisions\/2484998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2484997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2484996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2484996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2484996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}