Microsoft’s Xbox reset is pivoting Obsidian to make Fallout instead of Avo

Microsoft’s Xbox reset is pivoting Obsidian to make Fallout instead of Avowed

Xbox is currently in a "reset" period that includes laying off around 3,200 employees over the next year, involving deep cuts at beloved studios like id Software and Obsidian

If your goal is to lean into big games, why would you also be “making reductions” at places like Bethesda (Fallout, Elder Scrolls), id (Doom), and, perhaps Xbox’s most prolific

Activision gets <em>Halo</em>, Obsidian becomes part of Bethesda, and more internal shake-ups.

Microsoft may lay off Xbox staff this month, in November, and in January.

Move affects ~20% of the gaming division, which will refocus on its biggest franchises.

Xbox is making some big changes — again. On June 10th, a few months after Asha Sharma took over as CEO, she and newly-promoted chief content officer Matt Booty sent a memo to