Xbox retreats again – but to where? | Opinion

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Last July, when Microsoft made https://www.gamesindustry.biz/xbox-layoffs-july-2025">sweeping cuts to its gaming division, axing employees at King, Raven Software, Rare, Blizzard, and more, shuttering The Initiative, and cancelling the Perfect Dark reboot, Everwild, and ZeniMax Online's Project Blackbird, I said it was https://www.gamesindustry.biz/microsofts-darkest-day-in-gaming-since-the-last-one-opinion">Microsoft's darkest day since the last one.