News We could be seeing Total War: Warhammer 3’s redemption after months of backlash Sales for the sale throne, reviews for the review god May 1, 2024 Nic Reuben 6 comments
News Deliver Us Mars developers lay off all staff but plan to 'rebuild brick by brick' They "exhausted" all options to find a new project April 30, 2024 Graham Smith 12 comments
News Embracer will split into three companies, including Middle-earth & Friends Lars Wingefors to carry on as "a long-term, active, committed and supportive owner" April 22, 2024 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 48 comments
News $70 titles are doomed to go “the way of the dodo” says Saber Interactive CEO $70 games with beaks and feathers? Sign me up! April 11, 2024 Nic Reuben 86 comments
Feature How do we stop the next round of games industry mass layoffs? Thoughts from Larian, union advocates, Motion Twin and industry lobbyists April 8, 2024 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 78 comments
News Company of Heroes and Dawn of War devs Relic suffer layoffs one week after reclaiming independence from Sega Job losses apparently needed to give studio “the best possible chance to survive in an increasingly volatile industry” April 5, 2024 Matt Jarvis 6 comments
News Embracer say their restructure is over, but it's "too early" to start acquiring studios again My bone thresher is not yet ready to thresh more bones March 28, 2024 Graham Smith 43 comments
News Sega Of America staff have ratified a union contract, the first to do so at a major US studio The move comes amid layoffs at the company March 28, 2024 Graham Smith 3 comments
News CEO Andrew Wilson tells EA staff 5% of them will be laid off via empty and infuriating email Close to 670 employees will be affected, as EA move to concentrate on their owned IP and online communities Feb. 29, 2024 Alice Bell 64 comments
News Sony announce 900 layoffs across Naughty Dog, Guerilla, Insomniac and PlayStation studios worldwide It's proposed that Sony London be closed Feb. 27, 2024 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 35 comments
News Until Dawn devs Supermassive announce layoffs, with 150 jobs reportedly at risk Bloomberg claims 90 layoffs expected Feb. 26, 2024 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 6 comments
News Embracer have laid off 8% of their global workforce since their "restructuring" began "Our overruling principle is to always maximize shareholder value in any given situation." Feb. 15, 2024 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 17 comments
News Homeworld 3 studio Blackbird Interactive hit with layoffs The games industry has cut an estimated 6000-ish jobs so far this year Feb. 15, 2024 Alice O'Connor 1 comment
News Devolver cutting 28 jobs at Showgunners studio Artificer The games industry cut an estimated 5900 jobs in January alone Feb. 2, 2024 Alice O'Connor 6 comments
News Ruiner devs reportedly lay off over half of studio behind cyberpunk shooter Dozens of staff across "all possible departments" said to be affected Jan. 26, 2024 Matt Jarvis 5 comments
News Microsoft have "aligned on the best opportunities for growth" by laying off nearly two thousand people Including people at Activision Blizzard, ZeniMax and Xbox Jan. 25, 2024 Alice Bell 75 comments
News VR studio Wimo Games, Battle Bows and Micro Machines: Mini Challenge Mayhem devs, have closed their doors Around three dozen staff affected. Jan. 22, 2024 Matt Jarvis 2 comments
News Piranha Bytes, devs of Gothic and Elex, are next on Embracer's chopping block But they say they're still in the fight Jan. 22, 2024 Alice Bell 27 comments
News More layoffs as Behaviour Interactive and CI Games "adjust scope" and make "optimisations" Some Dead By Daylight and Lords Of The Fallen devs are out the door Jan. 19, 2024 Alice Bell 5 comments
News SteamWorld owners Thunderful to fire 20% of staff due to "over-investments made in the last few years" "These investments have proven unsustainable given the current industry climate." Jan. 17, 2024 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 20 comments
News Nacon think there are “too many games” due to a Covid-era boom and player standards are going up New game avalanche reflects heavy investment "when the market was bursting" Jan. 11, 2024 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 48 comments
News Twitch lay off 500 people as CEO concedes that staffing strategy has been "optimistic" "Our organization is still meaningfully larger than it needs to be" Jan. 10, 2024 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 17 comments
News Indie publisher Versus Evil closed and all staff laid off The publisher were bought by tinyBuild in 2021 Dec. 26, 2023 Graham Smith 15 comments
News Jumplight Odyssey development suspended indefinitely as League Of Geeks face redundancies Rising costs, funding withdrawals and poor early access sales all factors in this "impossible decision," the studio says Dec. 6, 2023 Katharine Castle 26 comments
News Slay the Spire, Signalis and Unpacking publishers Humble are the next video game makers to suffer layoffs "We have experienced trends that required this restructure in order to ensure our long-term success” Nov. 15, 2023 Matt Jarvis 11 comments