Microsoft Cuts 100 Employees

According to multiple source including VenuteBeat and Gamasutra, Microsoft has laid off 100 employees from Massive, the in-game advertising company in bought in 2006. This is a continuation of the workforce reduction it announced earlier this year. In January the company announced that it would be cutting 5,000 jobs in the next 18 months. Microsoft had already cut 1,500 of those 5, 000 jobs prior to today’s news, closing Microsoft Flight Simulator developers ACES studios in the process and finally closing Ensemble Studios

“As part of the plan we announced in January to reduce costs and increase efficiencies, today we are eliminating additional positions across several areas of the company,” a Microsoft spokesperson told Gamasutra. “Microsoft is not breaking out layoff figures by divisions.”

“While job eliminations are always difficult, we are taking these necessary actions in response to the global economic downturn,” the rep told Gamasutra in a separate statement.