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Inside the big business of the creator economy, with the agents making it happen
We’ve got another special episode of Decoder today, recorded at the Cannes Lions advertising festival in the South of France. I’m talking with Ali Berman and Raina Penchansky, who run the Creators division at United Talent Agency. UTA is an enormous talent agency. Half the people you’ve ever heard speak or perform or who show…
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Microsoft announces Xbox Game Studios cuts, affecting 4 studios
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma confirms 4 studios are leaving Microsoft, with a fifth, Arkane Studios, fate uncertain amid mass layoffs.
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Nintendo will stop selling the original Switch in Europe next year
Nintendo is making a new version of the Switch 2 with a replaceable battery in Europe – but its predecessor has a very different future. As part of an updated FAQ about revisions to Nintendo hardware in Europe, the company confirmed that it will stop selling all iterations of the original Switch on the continent…
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Xbox Laying Off 3,200 Staffers, CEO Confirms: “Our Business Today Is Not Healthy”
Microsoft’s Xbox video game division is implementing “the most significant restructure” in its 25-year history, CEO Asha Sharma announced Monday, with 3,200 workers receiving pink slips. Of the projected layoffs, 1,600 will take immediate effect, with the balance occurring over the rest of fiscal 2027. In addition to the job cuts amounting to a 20%…
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Kevin Herring Steps Down as Co-President at Triple Tigers Records
Herring will continue serving as a strategic advisor for the label.
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‘The song got us signed but I hated it’: how Haircut 100 made Fantastic Day
‘In the early days, we hopped on every bandwagon going – punk, ska, mod, everything. Fantastic Day was always there, just in different styles. The original was more Talking Heads. I preferred that’If I’d been sitting down when I wrote Fantastic Day, it would have been a different song, but I was standing up in…
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Xbox Slashing 3,200 Jobs In “Most Significant Restructure” in Platform’s History
“Our business today is not healthy,” Xbox CEO Asha Sharma warned in a memo to staff Monday.
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Elderly fisherman reveals gruesome trick he used to get rid of alligator that chomped down on his leg and tried to pull him into water for dinner
James McMicken, a 71-year-old fisherman in Florida, narrowly escaped with his life after his quick-thinking stopped a gruesome alligator attack.
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Xbox to Lay Off Up to 3,200 Staffers in ‘Most Significant Restructure’ in Company’s History
Xbox is set to lay off 1,600 staffers Monday and up to another 1,600 over the next year in what new CEO Asha Sharma calls the “most significant restructure” in the Microsoft division’s history. In addition, four Xbox studios — Ninja Theory, Undead Labs, Compulsion Games and Double Fine Productions, which collectively employee approximately 350…
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Microsoft is selling off four Xbox studios as part of significant gaming cuts
Microsoft is laying off 4,800 employees today, and more than 30 percent of the job losses are in the company’s Xbox division. The significant gaming cuts will affect nearly every part of Xbox and also involve four game studios being spun off to be run independently from Microsoft. Today’s layoffs, which are being described as…