Following 2024's massive wave of layoffs across the video game industry, one in three game developers say they were impacted by the cuts.
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...
As Microsoft was embroiled during that legal process throughout 2023, another negative trend overtook the industry: layoffs. Over 9,000 people have been laid off from video game companies this year, according to data from tracking websiteVideo Game Layoffs, with the bubble finally bursting after ...
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...
Thevideo game industry is in a state of flux: Studios haven’t eased off mass layoffs that began in 2023, nonsensical microtransactions continue to exist (adding unnecessary additional costs to already full-priced games), and the future of ...
Few things feel as inevitable in the video game industry as delays. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, game delays have become more common as developers find previously set timelines unrealistic and adjust their release plans accordingly. 2023 proved no different, with notable game delays...
"2023 has been a year full of layoffs and a lot of struggle in particular for the gaming industry in China. So this is kind of a severe blow I would say, especially for the medium and smaller publishers." The government's new gaming rules would also potentially speed up the process of...
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...
Meanwhile, layoffs have been decimating the video game industry Layoffs have hit the gaming industry hard. Anestimated 10,500 peoplewere laid off from game development positions in 2023. In a recentInternational Game Developers Associationsurvey, 4.8% of respondents reported being unemployed at the ...
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...