Microsoft says it is laying off about 9,000 workers, its second mass layoff in months and its largest in more than two years.

Reports and rumors of massive layoffs at Xbox have been building since late last month, and the first blood has now been spilled. Bloomberg reports that Candy Crush maker King is cutting 200 employees,

Tracking all of the news from unfolding Xbox layoffs. Which studios are involved, which games are affected. And what we think about it.

Xbox's Perfect Dark reboot, first announced in 2022, has been canceled. Its developer, The Initiative, is also shutting down, Microsoft has confirmed.

While it was known before this that Xbox layoffs were coming this week, what wasn’t known was their scope. It’s not just that jobs that have been cut, but a number of high-profile projects, and others that might have been great if they were not killed early on like this.

We have made the decision to stop development of Perfect Dark and Everwild as well as wind down several unannounced projects across our portfolio. As part of this, we are closing one of our studios, The Initiative.