As Xbox swings the axe, Gears of War: E-Day developers fear they'll be laid off straight after launch - and right before they'd be due their bonuses

Back successful July, caller Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced a full of 3,200 occupation cuts crossed Microsoft's gaming arm, with astir fractional of those cuts being made alongside that announcement. The interaction was vast. Various developers astatine Xbox studios, including Activision, Bethesda, Id Software, Blizzard, Mojang, and King suffered layoffs. Double Fine and Compulsion were thrust into independence, portion Dishonored 2's Arkane Lyon, State of Decay 3's Undead Labs, and Hellblade's Ninja Theory entered presumption for caller ownership.

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