Making Sense Of Slowdown The IGDA calls for "sustainable measures" to stop mass layoffs and "stop driving talent away"
March 5, 2024 Earning Equality InnoGames reveals staff salaries: So how do your compensations compare? Equal Pay Day is taking place on March 6 in Germany - a day when brave, pro-active companies reveal the pay grades of their staff
February 28, 2024 Layoffs Looming Trouble at the top for Esports as ESL Faceit Group lays off 15% of staff Up to 300 people are expected to lose their jobs across departments and seniority levels as "sustainable growth ambitions and profitability" take priority
February 27, 2024 Project Packup Die Gute Fabrik enters indefinite hiatus as funding dries up The studio’s co-founder Nils Deneken will return as CEO if funding is found to complete they're current project
February 13, 2024 Lead Layoffs Popcore undergoes "wave of layoffs" impacting key staff Employees appear to have been let go on February 12 2024
November 22, 2023 Crowd Of Clans Supercell’s Clash of Clans team doubled in size in 2023 Supercell set out at the start of the year to grow its team and clearly, it has succeeded
November 15, 2023 Skills Shortage 68% of UK games developers are suffering from skill shortages TIGA’s new report reveals that most game studio hires are of pre-established industry workers
November 1, 2023 Brazil Budge PTW to expand into Brazil, producing the company's 44th office Joao Albani will lead the new office expected to employ upwards of 100 local workers
October 19, 2023 Loads Of Layoffs Up to 14,000 new redundancies at Nokia as sales fall 20% By the end of 2026, an estimated 9,000 to 14,000 jobs will be axed
October 18, 2023 Loads Of Layoffs Social storyteller and RPG developer Thought Pennies joins layoffs trend Art director, producer, and design director each appear to have parted ways with the studio
October 17, 2023 Spending And Selling Epic Games delivers another 120 "fucked up" layoffs with Bandcamp sale After 800 layoffs last month, Epic offloading Bandcamp has only led to further redundancies
October 6, 2023 Job Cuts Telltale layoffs in progress at resurrected company Redundancies are being made at The Walking Dead creator, but numbers are still unclear
October 4, 2023 Job Cuts Epic Games lays off 800+ staff: CEO Tim Sweeney expects "degradation in quality" Speaking at Unreal Fest, Sweeney acknowledged the layoffs and discussed the company’s next course
September 27, 2023 To Be The Very Best 1 in 190: Why networking is essential for jobs in games Chances of getting that job are only 0.05% without putting in those networking hours
September 6, 2023 Tiga Analysis Britain’s large and mid-sized developers are booming 94% of game studios closed between December 2021 and April 2023 had four or fewer employees
August 29, 2023 Employee Exit FunPlus subsidiary Imagendary Studios left with "skeleton crew" after major layoffs The studio was acquired by FunPlus in 2021 and has yet to reveal a game
July 11, 2023 Prospering Poland Poland enters top three European countries in games industry workforce size A new report finds Poland has overtaken Germany in workforce size, though remains behind in revenue
June 28, 2023 Redundancies Montreal-based Ludia lets 45 staff go in new round of layoffs The company has clarified the impact its restructuring will have on its employees
August 22, 2022 New Position Reko Ukko joining Next Games as Chief Creative Officer This is Next Games' first leadership team announcement since its acquisition by Netflix Games
May 31, 2022 Remote Control "Flexible working is now a requirement, rather than a nice-to-have" for games industry professionals Amiqus' Liz Prince discusses how the games industry has responded to the enduring pandemic and the rising demand for flexible and remote working
May 31, 2022 Heaps Of Holiday tinyBuild is trailing limitless paid time off until end of year Mandatory minimum of two weeks remains in place
May 24, 2022 Under A Union Employees from Activision Blizzard's Raven Software form the first gaming union Accepted by the National Labor Relations Board with 19 votes to 3
March 30, 2022 Looking After The Talent Why games industry staffing is broken TheXPlace's Maya Rand details the post-pandemic struggle to acquire and retain video game talent, and the need for a change in 2022
February 25, 2022 Hiring Hundreds Epic Games hiring hundreds as full employees with benefit plans QA testers make up bulk of hires
June 9, 2021 3,600 New Hires Finnish games industry grows by 9% to nearly $3 billion in revenue 46 studios made a turnover of more than $1 million dollars
September 7, 2020 Moving Up Modern Times Group appoints Maria Redin as CEO Follows Lindemann vacating the position in July
September 1, 2020 All Business Scopely appoints Aaron Loeb as its new chief business officer "His deep games experience is invaluable to our employees, players and business"
April 24, 2020 Helping Hand Playrix is giving its staff a $650 one-off payment to help alleviate coronavirus stress “We hope this money will help relieve some of the stress everyone is now coping with"
February 7, 2020 Huge Growth New Zealand's games industry doubles in revenue over two years 63 per cent of titles created are mobile apps
January 28, 2020 Ukie Report UK game companies employ over 16,000 people and contribute $1.75 billion to the local economy Data collated from 2,100 games businesses in 2016
October 8, 2019 Strewth While Canada's game industry has boomed, Australia has flatlined Mighty Kingdom CEO Philip Mayes wants more