PC Gamer estimated that 11,250 people lost jobs in the games industry in 2023. It's perhaps easier to fathom the impact layoffs have had from another angle; in the Game Developers Conference's annual State of the Game Industry Survey, a third of the 3,000 respondents said t...
Video game industry layoffs: Why is it happening? March 1, 2024March 1, 2024 The increasing number of layoffs across the video game industry has seemingly come out of nowhere. In reality, it's been an inevitablity coming since the pandemic.… ...
But behind the flashy trailers and release dates, there’s something of a crisis: tens of thousands of workers in every part of the video game industry have beenlaid offsince 2022. This year alone, there havealreadybeen more than 10,000 layoffs in video games, and we’re not ev...
layoffs have rocked the industry, with the biggest culprit being Embracer Group, which has been shedding studios and workers ever since a deal meant to sustain its growth fell through. As 2023 wraps up, the game industry is in a much less bullish state than it was just 12 months ago, an...
At least 14,500 people in the sector were laid off worldwide in 2024, up from 10,500 in 2023, according to the Game Industry Layoffs website. Many studios have also closed their doors. In recent months, French giant Ubisoft announced it would close its branches in San Francisco and Osaka...
Of course, the industry's success isn't universal, and there have been a large number of layoffs at video game companies, just as has been seen across the economy as a whole. "We get asked a lot why there are so many layoffs and studio closings occurring in the industry when it has...
Video game industry layoffs, AI ethics are top concerns for workers, new survey says Chantal Ryan, founder ofdarkwebSTREAMERstudioWe Have Always Lived in the Forest, very quickly had to learn about investment and funding on her own when people became interested in game tech she was working on...
The most notable gaming news stories of 2023 run the gamut from genuinely exciting to thoroughly disappointed. That speaks to a video game industry bound to head into an odd 2024 that lacks the known quantity bombshells of this year and continues to reel from layoffs. Inlast year’s iteration...
Managers at video game companies aren’t necessarily using AI to eliminate entire departments, but many are using it to cut corners, ramp up productivity, and compensate for attrition after layoffs. In other words, bosses are already using AI to replace and degrade jobs. The process just doesn...
Within the last few years, video game industry layoffs have unfortunately become more commonplace. In 2023, we saw near-weekly layoffs across the entire industry. When the dust had settled, at least 6,000 jobs across publishers, developers, and other video game-related companies had been termina...