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Jordan Gerblick

Fallout and Elder Scrolls union says Bethesda layoffs didn't hurt Microsoft's "14 layers of management" – "We lost dozens of programmers, artists, designers and testers"

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While Microsoft's seemingly unending spree of Xbox layoffs has often swept right over core tentpole studios like Fallout and Elder Scrolls maker Bethesda Game Studios, this week's historic downsizing was different.

Among 3,200 cut jobs – 1,600 of which were eliminated immediately – Elder Scrolls Online studio ZeniMax Online, Avowed and Pentiment developer Obsidian, and Doom studio id Software were all impacted by significant cuts. Perhaps most surprisingly, even Bethesda Game Studios proper, the studio currently working on The Elder Scrolls 6, had its workforce reduced as part of the restructuring.

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