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Wave of layoffs at Microsoft after Stadia closure

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More than 1,000 workers, many of them veterans, have been laid off following a recent “restructuring” at the company.
It was clear that some things were going to change at Microsoft following the announcement of Google Stadia’s closure, and now we are beginning to see the real consequences of the company’s difficult decision.
While some of its technology has shifted to supporting other cloud gaming platforms such as Xbox Cloud Gaming, Amazon Luna and GeForce Now on a new line of Chromebooks, there were many teams and developers whose future at the Xbox-owning company was hanging in the balance, and today they’ve started sending out the pink slips.

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