Mike Mahardy
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9,119 appearances
23 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2025
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Mike Mahardy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Story number three.
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Microsoft called Age of Empires Studio before handing it over to Activision, with nearly half of the staff all gone.
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This coming from Tom Phillips at IGN.
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Age of Empires Studios' World's Edge lost almost half of all employees this week as part of Microsoft's latest round of job losses.
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The cuts form part of the 268 staff let go across the wider Xbox business as part of a projected target of 3,200 job losses forecast over the next course of this current financial year.
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It was announced on Monday that World's Edge would now be part of Activision, though details on how the studio's employees had been impacted remained unclear.
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In the days since, however, staff have now reported via social media that nearly 50% of the company was now out of work while its next project has been canceled.
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Quote, I am, of course, disappointed that this is the way the time with World's Edge and Age ends for myself and many of my talented teammates that were also impacted.
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We had some great plans for what's next.
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Wrote Adam Isgreen, formerly the company's studio creative director, who had served at World's Edge for 16 years.
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Quote, I hope the team that remains can rise to the occasion down the line.
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Following that up, we have another one.
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Quote, our studio was reorganized to be under the Activision umbrella, added Andrew Martz, formerly a senior software engineer at this studio.
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As part of the reorg, our next project was canceled and a large chunk of our studio was laid off.
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I was part of that layoff, end quote.
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We have another quote coming in.
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Quote, it was nice working with you.
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Was not a message I expected to get while on vacation.
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