Microsoft toss another 650 jobs onto the layoff pyre in the name of "sustainable future growth"

That “long term success” is certainly taking its sweet time.

The Acti-Blizz merger appears to have done reasonably well for Microsoft as a whole.

But the upshot is that Microsoft executives continue to feel the need to trim the books.

According toone unofficial tracker, there have been over 11,000 games industrylayoffsin 2024 so far.