By David Carcasole

A new report from MobileGamer.biz claims that 200 developers at Candy Crush studio King are at the risk of being laid off as part of Microsoft’s latest mass layoff, and will be replaced by the AI tools they were told to build.

King is the mobile division of Activision Blizzard King, and arguably was the division out of Microsoft’s ABK acquisition that its gaming team needed the most, since Microsoft lacked any presence in the mobile gaming industry. Buying the studio that makes Candy Crush, one of the biggest and most well-known mobile games around the world, changed that overnight.

But as it’s been reported multiple times, Microsoft’s cuts are allegedly not concerned with anything beyond the company wanting to get ahead, and stay ahead, in the AI race. Now, this report from MobileGamer.biz shows the inevitable endgame that every bean counter pushing AI and generative AI tools has in mind, being put into practice. That every part of the job they currently pay people to do can be replaced by an AI tool.

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