Comme rapport\u00e9 pr\u00e9c\u00e9demment par des sources anonymes la semaine derni\u00e8re, Microsoft a commenc\u00e9 un autre cycle de licenciements ce mercredi (02), affectant environ 3% de son effectif mondial, avec 9 000 suppressions d’emplois annonc\u00e9es. Il s’agit du quatri\u00e8me cycle de licenciements chez Xbox ces derniers 18 mois, et ces licenciements interviennent dans le contexte de l’acquisition de 69 milliards de dollars d’Activision Blizzard par Microsoft en octobre 2023. La division King de Microsoft, bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Stockholm, c\u00e9l\u00e8bre pour Candy Crush, proc\u00e8de \u00e0 des licenciements touchant 10% de son personnel, soit environ 200 emplois. Cela signifie que 200 personnes seront au ch\u00f4mage au sein de la division d\u00e8s le mois de juillet. D’autres entreprises europ\u00e9ennes sous la division Xbox, telles que Zenimax, ont \u00e9galement \u00e9t\u00e9 touch\u00e9es, mais le nombre exact de personnes licenci\u00e9es chez elles reste inconnu. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les studios Xbox bas\u00e9s aux \u00c9tats-Unis : on sait qu’ils seront affect\u00e9s par les licenciements, mais le nombre pr\u00e9cis de personnes concern\u00e9es n’est pas connu. \u00c0 ce jour, la division Xbox comptait un total de 20 000 employ\u00e9s.<\/p>\n
Le journaliste Jason Schreier indique sur Bluesky que les licenciements chez Zenimax ont entra\u00een\u00e9 l’annulation du nouveau MMORPG de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9, connu internes sous le nom de \u00ab\u00a0Blackbird\u00a0\u00bb. Le jeu n’avait pas \u00e9t\u00e9 officiellement annonc\u00e9 au public mais \u00e9tait en d\u00e9veloppement depuis 2018. Un autre jeu, Everwild, de Rare, qui avait \u00e9t\u00e9 officiellement annonc\u00e9 en novembre 2019, a \u00e9galement \u00e9t\u00e9 annul\u00e9 suite \u00e0 ces licenciements. Dans un e-mail envoy\u00e9 aux employ\u00e9s, Phil Spencer (PDG de la division jeux vid\u00e9o de l’entreprise) a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 que l’avenir de la division Xbox chez Microsoft n’avait jamais \u00e9t\u00e9 plus solide, mais que des coupes \u00e9taient n\u00e9cessaires pour assurer le succ\u00e8s futur de l’entreprise. Entre-temps, environ 11% des d\u00e9veloppeurs de jeux ont perdu leur emploi en 2024, alors que l’industrie des jeux vid\u00e9o traverse une p\u00e9riode de licenciements massifs dans le monde entier. Cependant, cette p\u00e9riode est marqu\u00e9e au Br\u00e9sil par l’adoption de la loi sur les jeux vid\u00e9o, une l\u00e9gislation pionni\u00e8re qui a un impact positif sur l’ensemble de la cha\u00eene de production des jeux \u00e9lectroniques dans le pays. Les deux histoires sont couverts par Pedro Zambarda, r\u00e9dacteur en chef de PlayersForLife, dans le livre \u00ab\u00a0Crash des jeux vid\u00e9o : de la loi sur les jeux vid\u00e9o aux licenciements massifs\u00a0\u00bb, et vous pouvez d\u00e9j\u00e0 obtenir votre copie sur Amazon. Consultez notre campagne de financement participatif, nos canaux YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, TikTok et Instagram pour PlayersForLife Games. Les b\u00e9n\u00e9fices de Microsoft sont en constante augmentation, la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 ayant rapport\u00e9 plus de 25 milliards de dollars de revenus nets dans son dernier rapport trimestriel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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