For Xbox fans and users, what it’s all about these days is keeping a cool head and not believing everything that moves on the networks, because a little insinuation can amplify into a few minutes and go completely viral. For this reason, it is also important to deny and clarify certain information so that it does not fall on deaf ears.
This happened yesterday with the post published by GameStop in which it used the term “Microsoft Game Pass”, instead of the usual Xbox Game Pass, but even the brand of the store itself, which used the name by error to encompass PC and Xbox services, a question that we clarified yesterday in this text. And tonight we have another similar case, because since a local newspaper in San Francisco, Californiacited that Microsoft’s huge layoffs affected the Toys For Bob offices in Novato, California, when they closed.
Toys For Bob is not closing, a good part of the staff is working remotely
Again, speculation linked the layoffs to the studio’s complete closure due to not having its own headquarters, but that’s it, the tipster himself later said he regretted the confusion, because due to downsizing, since they certainly laid off 86 workers, which they estimate represents 40% of their current operational force. The majority, as happened with Sledgehammer, have been relocated and some staff are currently working remotely.
These layoffs were already part of the 1,900 workers who left Microsoft in January, so this report only concerns the physical office, not the studio itself, which will continue to work on its own projects. Own Jez Corden also confirmed he won’t be closing the studio, after verifying it with its own sources. Toys For Bob is one of the most beloved studios among Xbox users, as they are currently responsible for the Crash Bandicoot saga and we all hope that they resurface with a new project that excites us, already under the umbrella of Microsoft.
