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One of the world’s most popular free tile-matching video games, Candy Crush’s maker King laid off 200 developers earlier.
According to multiple sources cited by MobileGamer.biz, several teams at King, including narrative design, UX, level design, ...
Microsoft is reportedly laying off several teams at King, the studio behind Candy Crush Saga, replacing them with AI tools that the staff helped develop.
Microsoft’s extensive gaming portfolio was hit hard by sweeping layoffs earlier this month. The situation appears to have ...
Concerns that Microsoft’s layoffs at Xbox would lead to developers being replaced by AI seem to have been proven true, starting with mobile developer King.
Sources familiar with the situation, speaking on condition of anonymity due to fear of reprisal, told Mobile Gamer Biz that employees in departments such as level ...
A new report about the King layoffs reveals more details about its motivations and how team members are reacting.
Microsoft has been accused of replacing recently fired workers with artificial intelligence tools that the former employees ...
A report from Mobilegamer.biz suggests that employees at the mobile developer who were working on level design and narrative ...
Recently laid-off employees at Microsoft subsidiary King are reportedly being replaced by AI tools they helped to create, and morale is apparently very low.
The ongoing bloodbath at Microsoft and its subsidiaries, Activision, Blizzard, King, Bethesda, and more has led to ...