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Xbox warns of a ‘reset’ as it prepares for layoffs

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30 Jun
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Xbox is barely Xbox anymore

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22 Sept
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Xbox CEO is reportedly planning three more rounds of layoffs

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma is planning new rounds of layoffs for sometime this month, November, and January, according to Fortune. In July, as part of an organizational "reset," Sharma

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8 Jul
If Microsoft sold off Xbox, who would even buy it?

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7 Jul
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7 Jul
Xbox’s bold plan for the future sounds nearly impossible

It's another bad week for the video game industry. Microsoft outlined a series of layoffs on Monday that Xbox CEO Asha Sharma described as "the most significant restructure in

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Microsoft’s new Xbox chief starts making her mark

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