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Amazon’s Lord of the Rings MMO Reportedly Canceled as Company Pivots to New Game

The change reflects a wider pullback from large online games at Amazon after last year’s layoffs.

Meta to Cut About 8,000 Jobs Starting May 20 in AI-Focused Reorg

Oracle Banks on $553 Billion AI Backlog as Debt and Layoffs Reshape Its Bet

Epic Reaffirms Disney Gaming Universe Plan After 1,000+ Layoffs

Digg Pulls App and Cuts Staff in 'Hard Reset' After AI Bot Onslaught

BuzzFeed Flags Survival Risk After $57 Million Loss, Keeps Pushing AI

Salesforce Names Six Senior Leaders, Reported Cuts Remove Under 1,000 Roles in AI Refocus

AMD Tumbles After Muted Outlook, Extending Selloff Despite Strong Quarter

Amazon Cuts About 16,000 Jobs as Games Chief Christoph Hartmann Reportedly Departs

Meta Cuts About 1,500 Reality Labs Jobs, Shuts First-Party VR Studios in Pivot to AI Wearables

Meta Shuts Down Horizon Workrooms, Ends Enterprise Quest Sales

Meta Cuts Reality Labs Staff, Redirects Spending to AI and Wearables

Amazon Tightens Corporate Reviews With Required Accomplishments, Attendance Tracking

Avalanche Closes Liverpool Studio, Lays Off 31 After Contraband Cancellation

October Job Cut Announcements Surge to Two-Decade High as Tech Leads the Losses

Paramount Skydance to Begin Mass Layoffs the Week of Oct. 27

Leaked Screenshots Offer First Look at Rare’s Canceled Everwild

Paramount Skydance Plans November Layoffs Targeting 2,000–3,000 Jobs

Blizzard’s Cinematic and Narrative Team Unionizes, Gains Microsoft Recognition

AWS Shuts Shanghai AI Lab in Realignment Driven by US-China Tensions