The executive producer at Xbox Game Studios was strongly criticized for the recommendations of AI tools for recently released workers in the gaming industry. 2 July 2025, Microsoft It has announced significant redundancies that will affect approximately 4% of their workforce or approximately 9,000 employees. This layout particularly influenced its game division because Microsoft has closed studios such as the initiative, canceled games as Perfect darkness Reboot and rare Everwildand reduced the number of employees in other major developers under the Xbox umbrella, such as Forza MotorsportTOUND 10.
In the now deleted LinkedIn post, executive producer Xbox Games Studios Matt Turnbull recommended that released workers use AI tools to “reduce the emotional and cognitive burden that comes with the loss of work”. “I know these types of tools that evoke strong feelings in humans, but I wouldn't try to offer the best advice I could under given circumstances,” Turnbull wrote. He then offered several AI ideas for “career planning”, “network and off -road” and “emotional clarity and trust”, including a challenge that recommended workers use AI to fight the impostor syndrome.
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According to VGC, the current contribution has inspired a wave of will from experts in the field and former employees of Microsoft affected by transmission. Eric Smith, a producer of Zenimax Online, whose project was canceled as part of Microsoft's redundancies,: “Read the dude rooms.” “I'm sure you're trying to help, but WTF,” Paul Murphy, designer Paul Murphy replied. Murphy asked Turnbulla to “give them respect they earned and assumes that they have the ability to write their own CVs.”
After a mass release, the manufacturer Xbox Game Studios recommends AI to former workers
This recent collective reduction comes as a result of another series of layoffs earlier in 2025, which reduced positions of 6,000 workers throughout the society. In 2023 and 2024, Microsoft released more than 10,000 employees. Including this latest wave of layoffs, it adds up to more than 25,000 Microsoft employees, who have been released since the beginning of 2023, many of whom were in Xbox Games Studios and other game divisions.
Turnbull's contribution comes as a particularly tone deaf due to the recent pressure of Microsoft to AI and the threat that AI will replace many of these staff. In 2025, Microsoft planned to spend more than $ 80 billion to build its AI infrastructure and contributed to the company's investment over $ 100 billion in AI.
In the last decade, Microsoft has spent more than $ 100 billion to bring high -profile development studios under its umbrella, especially Activision Blizzard, Zenimax Media, Mojang and rare, all of which were affected by this latest extensive series of persecution across Microsoft. According to the internal e -mail sent by Phil Spencer, Xbox employees are designed to remove “layers of management to increase dexterity and efficiency”.
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April 4, 1975
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Redmond, Washington, United States
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Satya nadella
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Activision Blizzard, Microsoft Studios, Mojang Studios, Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox Game Studios
