ZeniMax Online Studios leadership to exit as part of Xbox cuts
ZeniMax Online Studios is undergoing a leadership transition as part of a broader wave of layoffs at Microsoft's gaming division. The studio head and other key executives are departing following the elimination of hundreds of jobs across Maryland-based ZeniMax offices.
Why it matters
The layoffs reflect ongoing instability and restructuring within the major gaming industry, specifically impacting high-profile studios like those behind Elder Scrolls Online.
There are major changes happening atop Maryland-based ZeniMax Online Studios, developer of the Elder Scrolls Online, Game File has learned.
Joe Burba, a 14-year veteran of the studio who was appointed to run it last July, is departing, along with ESO executive producer Susan Kath, studio game director Rich Lambert and production director Ala Diaz.
Their roles were listed among hundreds of others cut last week from the Maryland offices of ZeniMax, in a WARN letter sent to the state by ZeniMax and obtained today by Game File.
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