[STEAM] Bethesda, id Software reportedly hit hard by Microsoft layoffs

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In announcing

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yesterday, CEO Asha Sharma focused on discussing cuts to the Xbox platform team and redundant layers of middle management. Now, though, word is filtering out about significant staffing cuts at remaining

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-owned game developers including id Software and Bethesda.

Apogee and 3D Realms founder Scott Miller—who

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yesterday of "insider reports" that a majority of id had been laid off, "including most (if not all) coders." And last night, veteran programmer Michael Maynard—whose

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date back to 2011's Rage—

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that he was among the "roughly 50%" of the id team that was let go Monday.

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"multiple anonymous sources" in confirming those reports, saying the redundancies amount to about 90 employees at the Doom studio. The first DLC pack for last year's Doom: The Dark Ages

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