In particular, the authors suffered Halo and Starfield from 343 Industries and Bethesda Game Studioswith some laid-off employees working with Xbox over 10 years. Specific data was not announced, but Schreier’s sources note that a particularly strong blow fell on 343 Industries.
Previously, many contract workers left the walls of Microsoft, and the process of hiring newcomers to the company has been on pause for some time. In total, Microsoft plans to cut about 10 thousand employees, that is, 5% of the total staff – the process will be completed by the end of the third quarter of fiscal year 2023.
Whether the cuts will affect the release of future new products from the company, including the same Starfield, is unclear.
In addition, the studio 343 Industries already left the director Halo Infinite Joseph Statenwhich moved to Xbox Publishing.
He joined the team in 2020 as lead story campaign specialist before moving on to lead the creative department. Previously, Staten worked on Combat Evolved, Halo 2 and Halo 3has written several books on the universe and acted as lead writer Destiny.
At the same time, support for Halo Infinite itself, against the backdrop of layoffs, apparently, is not planned to stop yet.
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