On January 8, 2024, Reuters reported the first truly massive round of layoffs for the year as Unity confirmed that it planned to cut nearly 25% of its staff as part of a continued “reset” at the company. This is reportedly the largest round of layoffs in the software company’s histor...
Updated on 5 November 2024 The computer game industry is a giant — but behind the figures are widespread gaming industry layoffs. As of October 2024, there have been more than 13,000 gaming layoffs this year, surpassing the 10,000 layoffs in 2023. Yet why should it be so? The video ga...
000 of the layoffs in January alone. The suffering of the workers in the industry was acknowledged during The Game Awards 2024, but while awards were being passed out
So far, 2024 is shaping up to be even worse than 2023, which saw a record number of layoffs--although the exact figures are difficult to pin down. PC Gamer estimated that 11,250 people lost jobs in the games industry in 2023. It's perhaps easier to fathom the impact lay...
A shift towards indie titles—Several respondents noted that recent AAA studio layoffs will make room for indie games to gain traction and visibility. As Chris Perez, Brad Hart, and Anastasia Kazakova discuss in the webinar,The State of Game Technology Report: Trends to Know, the things that...
The 2023 Game Awards capped a year that saw a sharp uptick in industry layoffs, which worsened significantly in 2024. Video gaming has lost just under 15,000 jobs this year, the latest cuts of which came from Warner Bros. Montreal on Thursday. WB Montreal worked on February’s “Suicide ...
In what was perhaps The Game Awards' most special moment,Amir Satvat was recognized with the first ever Game Changers awardfor his impact on the games industry. For those unfamiliar, Satvat has been integral in helping developers find work in a time where layoffs are worse than ever before...
During the ceremony, Tencent’s Amir Satvat was honored with the show’s first-ever Gamechanger award for his effort in helping developers hit by the gaming industry-wide layoffs this year find new work. Satvat said in his acceptance speech there was a “staggering amount of game experience...
Beginning in 2023 and continuing into 2024, the gaming industry also had mass layoffs across the world, with major studios slashing thousands of jobs. Microsoft cut 1,900 jobs in its gaming divisionin January, just three months after closing its acquisition of Activision Blizzard. A month later...
In one Wednesday, I had lost the entire reason I had moved to Maryland and started a new life in a new state.” Another person who was laid off from Xbox last year told me that even though they had found a new job since then, the lingering impact of the layoffs were still sitting ...