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Microsoft Has Responded to the Racist Conspiracy Theory Surrounding Xbox!

Summary by theGeek.games
Some slightly racist comments have been circulating about the new head of Xbox, and the Redmond-based tech giant has spoken out against them on social media.   Numerous complaints and concerns have been raised about the layoffs at Xbox, which resulted in 3,200 people losing their jobs and four studios closing down (or five, if Arkane’s situation is clarified). However, one claim we haven’t seen yet is that all of this is part of an effort to rep…
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Microsoft rejects the allegation that the recent redundancies at Xbox were used to replace employees with foreign professionals with H-1B visas. The claim spread after the Group had announced that it would remove a total of 3,200 jobs in its games division by the end of the financial year. About 1,600 of them had already disappeared at the beginning of the workforce reduction. more

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Eurogamer.de broke the news on Saturday, July 11, 2026.
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