

The Elder Scrolls Online's Community Manager, Jessica Folsom, has laid out the Zenimax Online Studio team's "immediate focus" of Season One following the news about an estimated 1,600 layoffs at Xbox on July 6, 2026. Ex-staffers have started sharing news of their redundancies from the MMO studio on sites like LinkedIn and Bluesky, including Mike [...]
Xbox is cutting 3200 jobs between now and the end of financial year 2027, with studios like Undead Labs and Compulsion Games going independent as others also try to navigate an uncertain future. Moreover, ZeniMax's entire division - which includes all of Bethesda's big studios - is facing major layoffs, even if no studios are being shut down for now. Now, we're hearing id Software has been hit particularly hard just as Doom: The Dark Ages - Revelations prepares to launch later today.
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