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it home reported on september 14 that the wave of layoffs in microsoft's gaming department is still continuing. following the layoffs of 1,900 employees in january this year, microsoft announced this week that it will further lay off 650 gaming department employees.

according to game journalist stephen totilo, the layoffs not only affected the company's internal functional departments, but also affected two mobile game teams.one of them is call of duty warzone mobile, which was released in march this year and attracted 50 million players to pre-register. totilo said that the game has not achieved the expected popularity since its release, so the development team has been reduced.

it home noticed thatanother mobile game affected is warcraft rumble.the tower defense game based on blizzard's fantasy game series was released worldwide last november, and it is reported that the game will now transition from "release" status to "operation".

microsoft's gaming division has undergone multiple rounds of layoffs since it completed its acquisition of activision blizzard last october. in addition to the above layoffs, in january this year, microsoft also canceled an unnamed survival game that had been in development for many years. in april this year, microsoft closed three studios of bethesda softworks: arkane austin, tango gameworks, and alpha dog studios. in addition, bethesda's roundhouse games studio was merged into the zenimax online studios team.