Rare will hold its first-ever Sea of Thieves community direct on Thursday.
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The stream comes a week after Rare lost several veteran developers as part of widespread layoffs at saw its in-development project, Everwild, cancelled.
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Rare first announced Everwild in November 2019 and released another trailer in July 2020. Updates on the game were scarce in the years that followed, except for gaming boss “progress” was being made on the title earlier this year.
Microsoft confirmed a significant wave of layoffs last week, which could reportedly see as much as 4%, or roughly 9,100, of the company’s total employees, across all departments, including gaming, affected.
“We continue to implement organizational and workforce changes that are necessary to position the company and teams for success in a dynamic marketplace,” a Microsoft spokesperson said.
In a message sent to all staff, Microsoft’s head of gaming, Phil Spencer, stated that the cuts were designed to “end or decrease work in certain areas of the business and follow Microsoft’s lead in removing layers of management to increase agility and effectiveness.”
