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Phil Spencer, executive vice president at Microsoft, speaks at the company’s Xbox One X reveal event ahead of the E3 Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles on June 11, 2017. Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images
Microsoft on Thursday said that it is cutting 650 roles at its Xbox gaming division, in the latest major round of layoffs to hit the video game industry. It marks the third series of redundancies in Microsoft’s video game unit since the company’s blockbuster acquisition of Activision Blizzard, the publisher behind the Call of Duty franchise, for $69 billion in cash. The U.S. tech giant confirmed to CNBC that it is cutting hundreds of roles at Xbox, in
Microsoft to cut 650 jobs at Xbox gaming unit
