Games

40008 readers

2905 users here now

Welcome to the largest gaming community on Lemmy! Discussion for all kinds of games. Video games, tabletop games, card games etc.

Rules

1. Submissions have to be related to games

Video games, tabletop, or otherwise. Posts not related to games will be deleted.

This community is focused on games, of all kinds. Any news item or discussion should be related to gaming in some way.

2. No bigotry or harassment, be civil

No bigotry, hardline stance. Try not to get too heated when entering into a discussion or debate.

We are here to talk and discuss about one of our passions, not fight or be exposed to hate. Posts or responses that are hateful will be deleted to keep the atmosphere good. If repeatedly violated, not only will the comment be deleted but a ban will be handed out as well. We judge each case individually.

3. No excessive self-promotion

Try to keep it to 10% self-promotion / 90% other stuff in your post history.

This is to prevent people from posting for the sole purpose of promoting their own website or social media account.

4. Stay on-topic; no memes, funny videos, giveaways, reposts, or low-effort posts

This community is mostly for discussion and news. Remember to search for the thing you're submitting before posting to see if it's already been posted.

We want to keep the quality of posts high. Therefore, memes, funny videos, low-effort posts and reposts are not allowed. We prohibit giveaways because we cannot be sure that the person holding the giveaway will actually do what they promise.

5. Mark Spoilers and NSFW

Make sure to mark your stuff or it may be removed.

No one wants to be spoiled. Therefore, always mark spoilers. Similarly mark NSFW, in case anyone is browsing in a public space or at work.

6. No linking to piracy

Don't share it here, there are other places to find it. Discussion of piracy is fine.

We don't want us moderators or the admins of lemmy.world to get in trouble for linking to piracy. Therefore, any link to piracy will be removed. Discussion of it is of course allowed.

Authorized Regular Threads

Related communities

PM a mod to add your own

Video games

Generic

[email protected]: Our sister community, focused on PC and console gaming. Meme are allowed.
[email protected]: For all your screenshots needs, to share your love for games graphics.
[email protected]: A community to share your love for video games music

Help and suggestions

By platform

By type

By games

Language specific

[email protected]: French

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Microsoft Plans Major Job Cuts at Xbox Gaming Division (archive.is)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

45 comments fedilink hide all child comments

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-24/microsoft-plans-major-job-cuts-at-xbox-gaming-division

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There was also COVID screwing up sales projections for the last few years. People were stuck at home for months and ended up buying a ton of digital media such as games to stay sane. Executives are stupid and were somehow shocked when numbers dropped after quarantine ended and people went back to their regular lives. Since then, a bunch of projects or even entire studios have been axed due to "underperforming" because they couldn't compete sales-wise with a period where the entire world was a captive audience.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

It is not something people could really predict.

Games and media sales did indeed go down. But movie theatres (and a lot of live entertainment) never actually went back up. People didn't "go back to their regular lives". We got a new normal

Which is why trump et al are working so hard to trigger doom spending and likely another pandemic or three if rfk gets his way.

But the bigger factor is funding. Plenty of indie studios have talked about how hard it is to find funding. Because economic uncertainty means that even a 2-3 year investment is a LOT riskier than it used to be. And that is a death sentence for indie devs but also very alarming for the major publishers who have to answer to investors.

Fuck microsoft and all their bullshit. But this goes way beyond "they bought too many studios and mismanaged them"