Candy Crush makers are losing jobs to AI they helped build: Report

[ad_1] King, the Microsoft-owned gaming studio behind the iconic Candy Crush franchise, is reportedly preparing to lay off more people and replace them with the same AI tools they developed. These job cuts are apparently happening in departments like level design and narrative writing. The news comes from MobileGamer.biz, which, citing sources familiar with the […]

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Microsoft cancels 3 games as layoffs impact Xbox team and its gaming studios

[ad_1] Microsoft, on Wednesday, July 2, announced that it is laying off approximately 9,000 employees, which is around 4 per cent of its global workforce. Many of these layoffs are also impacting the company’s Xbox division as well as other gaming studios, leading to some upcoming games being cancelled. In January 2024, Microsoft’s gaming division […]

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Apple, Amazon, Intel and others: Tech giants undergoing layoffs and hiring freezes

[ad_1] Following Elon Musk’s acquisition, Twitter fired nearly half of its workforce as part of cost-cutting measures. Interestingly, the company later had to ask some of the fired employees to return after it realised that they were either fired in error or were too essential to certain operations. But the Twitter layoffs are part of […]

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