Dune: Awakening developer Funcom has announced that it will lay off a number of employees, despite the fact that the survival MMO has been the studio's most successful launch to date. As reported by…
October 1, 2025 | 12:10 EDT
Just Cause and Mad Max developer Avalanche Studios has announced that it will be laying off some of its employees, and that it intends to close down its UK location. In a news update on its official…
September 30, 2025 | 10:48 EDT
Yet more industry layoffs have been announced, and this time, it's the turn of Marvel's Midnight Suns and Civilization VII developer Firaxis Games to let some of its staff members go. Said layoffs…
September 5, 2025 | 08:56 EDT
Tomb Raider studio Crystal Dynamics has announced that it's been hit by layoffs, but the developer says that work on the next game in the aforementioned action-adventure series remains "unaffected…
August 28, 2025 | 07:49 EDT
Another NetEase studio has had its funding pulled without releasing a game, and this time, it's the turn of T-Minus Zero Entertainment and its founder, BioWare and Sony veteran Rich Vogel. The news…
August 26, 2025 | 11:19 EDT
Splitgate 2 developer and publisher 1047 Games has announced that the portal-based first-person shooter will be going back into beta, and that several staff members will be losing their jobs as a…
July 23, 2025 | 08:46 EDT
Supermassive Games, the studio responsible for the likes of Bandai Namco's upcoming Little Nightmares III and the Dark Pictures anthology series, has announced another round of layoffs. Last year,…
July 22, 2025 | 10:58 EDT
GreedFall II and Steelrising developer Spiders has apparently become the latest studio to be swept up in the ongoing wave of industry layoffs. According to a LinkedIn post by lead animator Erwan…
July 22, 2025 | 07:55 EDT
Update July 17th 11:02AM ET: Virtuos has confirmed the below layoffs, describing them as "a rebalancing of roles across [its] studios and geographies". In an official statement, the studio says…
July 17, 2025 | 09:30 EDT
According to a new report, staff who recently lost their jobs at Microsoft subsidiary King are being replaced by AI tools they helped to train, and morale at the company is now extremely low. Last…
July 15, 2025 | 08:10 EDT
Romero Games, the studio founded by legendary industry auteur John Romero, has clarified that it is not, in fact, shutting down, and that it's currently seeking a new publisher for its ongoing…
July 8, 2025 | 07:51 EDT
The ongoing Xbox layoff and cancellation wave continues, and this time, it's developer The Initiative and its long-awaited Perfect Dark reboot in the crosshairs, it seems. According to a report by…
July 3, 2025 | 08:44 EDT
Rare appears to have become caught up in Microsoft's round of layoffs today, and the developer's long-running project Everwild also seems to have been canceled, according to a new report. Per VGC, …
July 2, 2025 | 11:57 EDT
A new round of layoffs at Microsoft has apparently begun, and employees at studios like Candy Crush Saga developer King and Bethesda's parent company ZeniMax are losing their jobs, with up to 9,000…
July 2, 2025 | 09:52 EDT
Lost Records: Bloom & Rage developer Don't Nod has become the latest studio to be hit by a wave of layoffs, if a spate of social media posts from now-former employees are anything to go by. As…
June 26, 2025 | 08:18 EDT
A new report has emerged which alleges that Xbox is planning what sound like sweeping layoffs across the company, shortly before the end of Microsoft's fiscal year. According to Bloomberg's Jason…
June 24, 2025 | 10:56 EDT
Hytale developer Hypixel Studios has announced that the ambitious voxel sandbox game has been canceled, and that the studio itself will be shutting down as well. In a news post on the official …
June 24, 2025 | 08:25 EDT
According to a new report, MindsEye developer Build a Rocket Boy is about to be hit by a wave of layoffs that could see around a third of employees at the studio lose their jobs. Per IGN (which…
June 23, 2025 | 08:27 EDT
Tabletop and gaming giant Hasbro has laid off around 3% of its employees, which amounts to about 150 jobs lost from the company. That's according to a report by the Wall Street Journal, which cites…
June 18, 2025 | 09:08 EDT
Days Gone developer Bend Studio has been hit by sweeping layoffs affecting around a third of the company's staff, parent company Sony has confirmed. In a statement given to Kotaku, Sony says the…
June 11, 2025 | 10:38 EDT
Jagex, the studio best known for long-running MMORPG RuneScape, has announced a round of layoffs in order to "reduce complexity" and "increase agility", which sounds like fairly typical corpo-speak…
June 4, 2025 | 08:39 EDT
Bulletstorm and Painkiller developer People Can Fly has announced an unknown number of layoffs, as well as the cancellation of two unannounced projects. In an update on X, studio CEO Sebastian…
June 2, 2025 | 09:04 EDT
Yooka-Laylee developer Playtonic has officially confirmed that it's been hit by layoffs, describing those who have been let go as "some truly brilliant members of [the developer's] team". In a post…
May 30, 2025 | 09:22 EDT
Electronic Arts has just cut up one of it's marquee upcoming games, the Black Panther game that Cliffhanger Games had been working on. First reported by IGN, the information came from an email sent…
May 28, 2025 | 04:22 EDT
Microsoft is about to lay off thousands of employees across all of its divisions, a new report released today claims. According to CNBC (which cites a statement given to it directly by Microsoft), 3…
May 13, 2025 | 12:18 EDT
Yesterday, Titanfall and Star Wars Jedi developer Respawn Entertainment revealed that it would lay off a number of employees and cancel two "early-stage incubation" projects. Now, it's emerged that…
April 30, 2025 | 10:22 EDT
Star Wars Jedi and Titanfall studio Respawn Entertainment has been hit by further layoffs, and the studio has also opted to cancel two of its "early-stage incubation projects". Per a post on X,…
April 29, 2025 | 01:51 EDT
Mountaintop Studios has announced that its free-to-play first-person shooter Spectre Divide is to shut down soon, and that the studio itself will also be closing its doors. Per a news post on Steam…
March 13, 2025 | 10:04 EDT
Another PlayStation studio has reportedly been hit by layoffs, with support studio Visual Arts apparently in the Sony firing line this time around. According to Kotaku, Visual Arts was hit by…
March 5, 2025 | 08:12 EST
GOG has announced that it's adding 2005 horror shooter F.E.A.R. to its Preservation Program ahead of schedule in order to "recognize" the contributions of shuttered developer Monolith. In a post on…
February 26, 2025 | 10:52 EST
Video games layoffs continue as it appears to be hitting Warner Bros owned studios. A new report from Jason Schreier, shared that the latest studios to be cut are: Monolith Productions, Player First…
February 25, 2025 | 02:51 EST
The Callisto Protocol developer Striking Distance Studios has apparently laid off the majority of its staff, at least according to two employees who were let go from the company. As spotted by…
February 25, 2025 | 10:41 EST
Surgeon Simulator and I Am Bread developer Bossa Studios has announced it will lay off an undisclosed number of employees, and that it will restructure its operations to focus on smaller projects.…
February 24, 2025 | 08:29 EST
Oxenfree developer Night School has been hit by layoffs, although how many staff have been affected by the move is unclear at the moment. Per Game Developer, an "undisclosed number of employees"…
February 19, 2025 | 09:10 EST
[Update: 8:55 AM Feb 19] Netease has released a statement regarding the closure of the US based Seattle studio that was part of the team making the game. The statement was provided to Game Developer…
February 18, 2025 | 02:52 EST
Liquid Swords, the studio founded by Just Cause franchise creator Christofer Sundberg, has announced a round of layoffs, making it the latest NetEase studio to be hit by funding cuts or downsizing…
February 17, 2025 | 10:46 EST
Crysis and Hunt: Showdown developer Crytek has laid off around 60 employees, citing the same "complex, unfavorable market dynamics" that have claimed jobs across many of the studio's peers in recent…
February 12, 2025 | 08:28 EST
New reports have emerged claiming that Unity has laid off a number of employees, with one report suggesting that the company's entire Behavior division has been laid off. According to Unity Behavior…
February 11, 2025 | 10:12 EST
The staff count at Tekken 8 and Elden Ring publisher Bandai Namco has fallen by over 100 in the last ten months, a new report has revealed. According to Automaton Media, the Japanese online pension…
February 6, 2025 | 10:04 EST
Another day, another set of layoffs it seems. Iron Galaxy layoffs are the latest to strike the industry as the studio responsible for a lot of porting work, co-development, and the creation of the…
February 5, 2025 | 03:43 EST
Sackboy: A Big Adventure and Team Sonic Racing studio Sumo Group has announced that it will be laying off an unspecified number of employees as it refocuses on third-party work for hire and support…
February 4, 2025 | 09:05 EST
BioWare has laid off several of its employees as part of an initiative to become a "more agile" studio, although the developer itself hasn't officially announced these layoffs. As noted by Rock…
January 30, 2025 | 10:18 EST
Dauntless and Fae Farm developer Phoenix Labs has laid off the majority of its remaining employees as part of what it describes as "unfortunate but necessary changes to our operations". In a post on…
January 28, 2025 | 09:00 EST
Ubisoft has closed down yet another studio and laid off almost 200 employees, with a support outfit in the UK being shuttered and three studios undergoing "targeted restructurings", i.e. layoffs.…
January 27, 2025 | 11:20 EST
Bandai Namco subsidiary and Unknown 9: Awakening developer Reflector Entertainment has canceled an in-development project and laid off a number of staff following what it calls the "failure" of its…
January 21, 2025 | 09:29 EST
Yet another round of layoffs has hit Microsoft, affecting employees working at the tech giant's gaming division, as well as two of its other divisions. A report by Business Insider (which is…
January 15, 2025 | 09:43 EST
Robocraft 2 developer Freejam has announced that ongoing development on the game is no longer sustainable, and that the studio itself will also be closing its doors and sunsetting its other titles.…
January 9, 2025 | 08:40 EST
Splash Damage has announced that upcoming online multiplayer action game Transformers: Reactivate has been canceled, and that a number of roles at the studio may now be "at risk of redundancy". In a…
January 8, 2025 | 11:47 EST