It has been a little bit of a wild week for Microsoft to this point, with the corporate saying it could be chopping 10,000 jobs. This has additionally surprisingly hit the Xbox division throughout the tech large – together with Halo Infinite developer 343 Industries.
Other than layoffs, it was introduced that Halo Infinite’s Head of Artistic Joseph Staten can be rejoining Xbox Publishing. In the event you’re questioning how Joe is doing, he appears to be going above and past proper now to help former staff who’ve misplaced their jobs. This is precisely what he needed to say by way of Twitter in his newest replace:
“Hey of us, proper now I’m 100% centered on serving to individuals who misplaced their jobs discover nice new ones. The outpouring of help from different studios has been wonderful. Please, hold it coming. In the event you’d like a reference for somebody you’re contemplating, my DMs are open.”
As you’ll be able to see, he is even gone to the extent of opening his ‘direct messages’ on Twitter to assist out. One different replace from Neill Harrison – the now former director of artwork administration at 343 Industries – went into extra element about simply how “onerous” the group has been hit.
In a message (shared by way of the r/halo subreddit) Harrison claims the artwork group at 343 has misplaced “round 30 folks alone”. Numerous others from 343 have additionally shared updates over the previous few days.
Along with the Halo group, the Microsoft-owned Bethesda studios (Starfield) has additionally confirmed job cuts. Microsoft hasn’t revealed the overall variety of folks which were faraway from its gaming division.
