{"id":538905,"date":"2026-07-08T08:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T08:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/538905\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T08:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T08:43:08","slug":"half-of-id-softwares-team-reportedly-affected-by-xbox-layoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/538905\/","title":{"rendered":"Half of id Software&#8217;s Team Reportedly Affected by Xbox Layoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Xbox is undergoing a significant <a href=\"https:\/\/80.lv\/articles\/xbox-is-laying-off-3-200-employees-giving-4-studios-new-management\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">restructuring<\/a>, with 3,200 people being laid off across Activision, Bethesda and ZeniMax, Blizzard, and Xbox Game Studios. Recently, there were <a href=\"https:\/\/80.lv\/articles\/zenimax-to-focus-on-key-franchises-amid-xbox-restructuring\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">reports<\/a> that studios within Bethesda&#8217;s organization, including id Software and ZeniMax Online Studios, would not be closed entirely, but would face cuts involving a &#8220;significant number of staff,&#8221; and now, there are more details about it.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamedeveloper.com\/business\/report-around-half-of-the-id-software-team-have-been-laid-off\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Game Developer<\/a>, about 50% of workers have been let go, which allegedly amounts to over 90 positions. A source claims that the QA department lost a major part of its team. <\/p>\n<p>In an internal email referenced by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/we-need-to-change-course-bethesda-boss-tells-staff-the-company-must-focus-on-our-strongest-franchises-as-xbox-layoffs-hit-hard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">IGN<\/a>, Bethesda boss Jill Braff said that the new strategy will be focusing on key franchises: &#8220;to best position Bethesda for future growth, we are shifting from a planning model primarily centered on what&#8217;s next for each independent studio to one that focuses on our strongest franchises and determining the content roadmap that best serves our players and Bethesda as a whole.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Xbox is undergoing a significant restructuring, with 3,200 people being laid off across Activision, Bethesda and ZeniMax, Blizzard,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,43,80,14799],"class_list":["post-538905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-technology","tag-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}