Microsoft, Ubisoft and Bungie announce job cuts amid gaming industry shake‑up

Microsoft said it will restructure its Xbox division, now called XBOX, and plans layoffs and studio closures. Ubisoft confirmed it is also preparing job cuts, while Bungie announced upcoming redundancies. A European citizen initiative called “Stop Killing Games,” which sought to protect video games, was rejected by the European Commission. The same report noted rumors that data from Pokémon Go players may have been used to train a military‑grade AI, and that the developers of the game Dispatch have partially rolled back censorship on the Switch version.

These developments reflect a broader trend of cost‑cutting and restructuring across major game publishers worldwide.