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So far, there’s no official statement from Microsoft regarding the shutdown

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Published onApril 25, 2024

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The gaming industry can be extremely unforgiving, and sometimes to cut costs, certain teams need to be shut down entirely.

It appears that this has happened to Bethesda France recently, so here’s what we know so far.

Microsoft has supposedly shut down Bethesda France

This rumorcomes from Insider Gaming, as many are claiming that Bethesda France was closed. This is no surprise sinceMicrosoft has announced layoffsa few months ago.

The company already had1900 layoffs in Activision Blizzardfollowing the acquisition. Regarding the rumors of the Bethesda France shutdown, a Twitter user SCOTTY, a community manager at Bethesda France, posted the following tweet recently:

8 ans de ma vie consacrés à@Bethesda_fr, 8 ans de rencontres formidables, de souvenirs que j’oublierai jamais, et d’opportunités uniques.Une page qui se tourne et qui fait mal à de nombreuses personnes.Merci aux CM, à la communauté et à nous, modos, d’avoir permis cela ?❤️pic.twitter.com/Q4v4HZjG0j

The tweet says the following:

8 years of wonderful encounters, memories that I will never forget, and unique opportunities. A page that is turning and which hurts many people.

In the comments, SCOTTY elaborated that he was let go due to “mass layoffs at Microsoft, globally”.

As for Bethesda France, the company has existed for 12 years and it had 15 employees.

The majority of the workforce was focused on marketing and publishing games in the country, so shutting down the studio won’t affect the development of new titles in any way.

So far, Microsoft hasn’t commented on these rumors, so the shutdown hasn’t been officially confirmed yet.

On the bright side, theFallout franchise had 5 million players in a single dayrecently, so things are still going pretty well for Bethesda.

More about the topics:Bethesda,microsoft

Milan Stanojevic

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Before joining WindowsReport, he worked as a front-end web developer. Now, he’s one of the Troubleshooting experts in our worldwide team, specializing in Windows errors & software issues.

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Before joining WindowsReport, he worked as a front-end web developer. Now, he’s specialized in Windows errors & software issues.

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