Microsoft recently announced the company’s intent to shut down studios such as Compulsion Games, Ninja Theory, and Double Fine, right after a successful Summer Games Fest showcase. The Internet isn’t liking that one bit, and is correctly comparing it to the most infamous betrayal in TV history. Why did Xbox wine and dine us like that, if they knew? https://t.co/laogo9IIjT pic.twitter.com/Z1q9DSr4t0— Del (@TheCartelDel) June 16, 2026 Let’s try to keep spoilers to a minimum for those who haven’t seen the show. Simply put, the Red Wedding is a supposedly chill feast where the Stark clan is actually being lured into a trap that results in the deaths of like 50% of the remaining good people on that show. And sure, one could say that Microsoft’s not going that far, but, like, the thing about the Red Wedding is that it’s not real life. A lot of people stand to lose their livelihoods, and, albeit at a much lower capacity, a lot of gamers also have the right to feel betrayed for seeing the announcement of a lot of promising stuff that might no longer come to fruition. Remember the announcement of Senua‘s third chapter? That looked really cool! Too bad that, just 8 days later, that whole studio could be shutting down, or at the very least face serious compromises to stay alive. Layoffs suck, mass layoffs are worse, but shutting down entire studios is something else. And that after throwing a lavish party filled with cool reveals, knowing what you were about to do. This decision couldn’t have come out of nowhere, so it feels more on the nose for Microsoft to have held such a nice feast, with an illuminated XBOX logo right at the center, seemingly just so you wouldn’t forget. Image via Twitter Others have joined in on the “fun” to remind us that this kind of move isn’t really new for Microsoft. Image via Twitter And I’ll add to the party, that time when AMD created the would-be CPU for the original Xbox and their engineers were invited to see the console’s big unveiling, only for Bill Gates to come on stage and announce they’d be going with an Intel chip, actually. So maybe it’s in Xbox’s DNA to be like this, but it doesn’t have to be, and it shouldn’t, because nobody likes that. I believe that right now, the best strategy Microsoft can come up with is simply to not antagonize developers and gamers alike. I know just how obvious that sounds, but here we are.0The post The Internet is calling out Microsoft for carrying out the Red Wedding of gaming appeared first on Destructoid.