
During the latest round of mass layoffs and terminations at Microsoft (which affected around 9,000 people), one team at Xbox was hit particularly hard: Turn 10 Studios, the developers behind the storied Forza Motorsport simulation racing franchise.
Forza may be one of Xbox's largest and most renowned home-grown IPs, but that didn't prevent as much as 50% of Turn 10 from being let go. Since then, the future of Forza Motorsport has been looking bleak, and it didn't help that Xbox suddenly went completely quiet.