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2024 is full of video game company layoffs, and it's not slowing down anytime soon for the misfortune of all. Evening Star is the latest to face such a turmoil. For those not in the know, Evening Star is an indie company known for this year's 3D platforming game hit Penny's Big Breakaway. The company is also under the umbrella of Private Divisio...
It's been revealed that Microsoft will lay off around a whopping 650 employees, or 3 percent of the Xbox’s global workforce. Microsoft employees in the US will receive exit packages that include severance, extended healthcare and outplacement services, while international employees will receive different packages depending on their location. ...
It hasn't been a great week for those working in the games industry. The publisher behind League Of Legends and Valorant, Riot Games, has allegedly been laying off its employees. The source comes from esports reporter Jacob Wolf, who tweeted that "multiple people" have told him that Riot Games have been making layoffs across multiple departments...
Electronic Arts (EA) is laying off 350 people from multiple departments. This has proven to be one of the hardest years in gaming. In an email received by Kotaku, EA boss Andrew Wilson said the goal would be to streamline decision-making in the marketing and publishing departments following a consolidation that began last year. Some offices are cl...
We are receiving yet another story of layoffs as Chinese tech giant NetEase has confirmed reports that they are carrying out widespread layoffs due to a fall in net profit last year. NetEase has been conducting organizational adjustments since the Chinese New Year holiday. This adjustment came in the form of downsizing some departments, cutting al...
Facing financial pressures, CD Projekt owned distribution platform, GOG was forced to lay off 'at least a dozen staff' last week as confirmed by Kotaku. GOG did not state the exact reason as to why this lay off happened, but one of the laid-off employees has said that the company has been in a financial rut. An official statement from GOG confir...
Something wicked this way comes to the house that created Call of Duty and all them Blizzard games. Activision Blizzard is planning to lay off hundreds of workers as the company outlines to reform and centralise its operations. According to Bloomberg, the layoff will come from various parts of the company, including Blizzard itself, due to the dis...
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