July 6, 2023 Stocks Embracer Group fixes financial woes with a $182 million share issue After recent financial surprises, the company has taken corrective measures… leading to a devalued stock price that's 14% down
June 27, 2023 Restructuring Hi-Rez announces layoffs in studios, dissolving Rogue Company: Elite developer First Watch Games Right now it's not entirely clear who will take over development of the mobile title
June 22, 2023 Trading Hero Wars developer Nexters to restructure as GDEV Inc The company resumed trading on the NASDAQ this year
June 19, 2023 Moving On Nicola Sebastiani has left head of mobile position at PlayStation Pursuing a new opportunity
June 13, 2023 Restructuring Embracer announces restructuring programme after disastrous Q4 financials After a massive $2bn deal fell through at the eleventh-hour, Embracer is in damage-control mode
May 25, 2023 Redundancies Kabam to lay off 12% of workforce The Marvel Contest of Champions developer undertakes restructuring
March 20, 2023 Reported Restructuring UK-based Team17 is supposedly laying off employees from art and design teams The publisher is currently aiming to restructure
March 17, 2023 Q&a Elena Grigoryan on the struggles and success of My.Games The CSO of My.Games discusses the ongoing changes in the mobile industry and how their company weathered both the pandemic and their departure from Russia
December 15, 2022 Restructuring My.Games to divest entirely from Russian market and restructure The new owners of the My.Games platform have announced their intention to divest it entirely from the Russian market and refocus internationally
July 21, 2022 The Company Is Branching Out Room 8 Studio structural change leads to exclusive mobile games dev unit At least two entities, including the mobile games dev and trailer production, will branch out from the studio
July 5, 2022 Tencent Teams Tencent expands with four new studios TiMi J3 Studio has been split into smaller teams
July 6, 2021 "core Of Atari" Atari Gaming shifting focus away from free-to-play and mobile games Attention to be directed towards premium games for console and PC
July 5, 2021 Reset Button Love Island developer Fusebox responds to layoff claims "Fusebox is currently consulting with its employees on a proposed change..."
January 24, 2020 Split Up Daybreak Games breaks off into three studios Two based in San Diego and one in Austin
November 13, 2019 Reboot PayDay: Crime War will shut down before being relaunched with a new publisher Current version will cease operations on December 16th
May 10, 2019 Last Call Starbreeze on the hunt for investment but could close by as early as next month Firm lost $17.4m before tax in first quarter of the year
May 1, 2019 Stack Appodeal is now a part of umbrella ad tech solution brand Stack Stack wants to help mobile publishers compete with an encroaching ad network industry
April 25, 2019 Restructure Sega restructures its mobile Hardlight studio to integrate directly within Sega Europe Former development director Neall Jones takes on a new role as Hardlight’s studio director
February 20, 2019 Redo An underwhelming Q3 sees Square Enix streamline its business units 11 reduced to four, won’t result in any workforce reduction
November 12, 2018 Job Losses Flaregames restructure leads to 45 layoffs as CEO Klaas Kersting steps down Todd English takes over as CEO
October 1, 2018 Business Shuffle Tencent restructures business for first time in six years as games regulations bite Publishing giant setting itself up for future challenges
November 29, 2017 Autodesk Job Cuts Autodesk cuts 1,150 jobs amid restructuring to focus on digital products and subscriptions Around 13% of its workforce made redundant
November 1, 2017 Job Losses CCP lays off 100 staff as it quits VR to focus on PC and mobile Atlanta office to close, Newcastle branch up for sale
March 8, 2017 Flew The Coop Rovio sells TV animation studio to former CEO Mikael Hed Will remain as partners on future books and animation
January 11, 2017 Glu Cuts Two studios face closure as Glu Mobile plans to cut up to 140 jobs Bellevue definitely closing, Long Beach dependent on performance
December 2, 2016 New Team Comp Super Evil Megacorp COO Kristian Segerstrale to take over as CEO Current CEO becomes President and Chief Business Officer
September 15, 2016 East Meets West Goodgame Studios bets on gacha-based Asian-style RPGs after restructuring The new 30-strong RPG team speaks out
August 19, 2016 The Puppy Gets It Goodgame Studios cuts 100+ jobs as it ditches casual and PC client games to focus on core RPGs in, casual games out
May 25, 2016 Microsoft Streamline Microsoft cuts 1,850 jobs as it "streamlines" mobile hardware business Restructuring to cost company $950 million
May 12, 2016 An End To Infinity Disney cuts console publishing, doubles down on mobile Disney Infinity line killed off as 300 lose jobs
April 1, 2016 Core Centre Capcom consolidations all mobile operations to aggressive focus on own IP games Beeline Interactive dissolved
March 1, 2016 All Change Again Zynga puts its trust in operational excellence, as ex-EA Mobile EVP Frank Gibeau becomes its surprise new CEO Pincus reverts to chairman role
February 23, 2016 Bigger, Bolder... Fewer Kabam lays off 8 percent of staff in multiplayer refocus Exact numbers still vague
February 9, 2016 Turning The Page Rovio's decoupling continues as book publishing activity spun out Books become separate affiliate
December 9, 2015 Legal Eagle All change at Rovio as it gets new CEO while Wilhelm Taht becomes head of games All change in the Angry Birds nest
September 14, 2015 Up The Pecking Order Kabam restructures studio management as ex-EA exec Nick Earl departs CEO Kevin Chou says there's changes at Kabam
August 14, 2015 Step Up MobilityWare promotes former COO Jeff Erle to CEO The California firm shaping up for the future
July 16, 2015 Good Better Best Goodgame continues new look, appoints Ubisoft vet Simon Andrews to run new studio Expansion apace
April 22, 2015 Axed Disney Interactive begins “targeted reduction" of Club Penguin workforce Teams behind popular brand are shrunk