Seven workers were reportedly laid off at PowerWash Simulator developer FuturLab, with remaining employees told to call them "the leavers" and team leads cut out of the process
"Leadership will spend billions on marketing, or content, or acquisitions, or other things they think will attract customers, but completely neglect the actual people building the products"
"What part of Xbox are you wanting to delete, and which part of Xbox do you want to go back to? Because I’m very suspicious of which part of Xbox it is"
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