Yesterday, Xbox game developers held coordinated " Save Our Devs " rallies across nine cities in the United States and Canada on August 18, organized by the OneBGS union (representing Bethesda Game Studios ) alongside the Communications Workers of America (CWA), in protest of the wave of layoffs that recently swept through Microsoft 's gaming division like a whirlwind .
The rallies respond to Microsoft's announcement of roughly 3,200 planned Xbox job cuts , with the first phase already having eliminated 1,600



