Microsoft cuts 1,900 staff at Xbox, Bethesda and Activision Blizzard

Microsoft is cutting 1,900 staff across the Xbox, Bethesda and Activision Blizzard teams as the latest in a wave of layoffs across the game industry.

On top of that, Blizzard’s president Mike Ybarra and its chief design officer Allen Adham — the cofounder of Blizzard — are leaving the studio. And Blizzard’s survival game is no longer in development. The moves are the first major cuts in the wake of the $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard in October. It also comes after a leadership reorganization to deal with the new company structure.