Approximately 90 employees will lose their jobs with Namco Bandai in the United States. These layoffs are the result of a new direction Namco Bandai is taking to increase its presence in the mobile and digital gaming market. Those being let go do not match the skills Namco Bandai believes is needed for its new business practices.

The world’s largest video game company has restructured its leadership team and split into four divisions and all without giving much public notice. Activision Blizzard alerted employees last week and the Times confirmed the actions through internal Activision memos.

With the current world economic issues affecting the game industry, Microsoft has now begun to clean its own house by trimming some of the supposed fat from its developer portfolio.

Microsoft has already shut down several of its first-party studios including FASA, ACES and Ensemble and now it appears Rare is restructuring.

In a statement released to GameSpot, Rare’s Studio Manager Mark Betteridge said the restructuring could result in layoffs…