Hot Five Hot Five: EA layoffs, Unity shares falls amid restructure, and Rollic picks up Barbie licence
Out Of The Loop Double Loop may be closing before its first launch but Scopely is taking on its staff
December 20, 2023 Kaiju Closure Tencent’s Team Kaiju closes Team Kaiju is believed to have secretly closed this June, with most staff reassigned to other projects
November 22, 2023 Tumultuous Times Almost half of all mobile games are axed in development and 83% don’t last three years SuperScale’s new report reveals the vast majority of mobile games are shuttered by their third anniversary
November 20, 2023 Studio Shuttering Supercell-backed studio Papukaya is closing down after three years The Helsinki-based studio aimed to reach non-gamers with experimental titles
September 22, 2023 Embracer Group Embracer Group will need to “continue making tough decisions” Speaking at a company Q&A, CEO Lars Wingefors confirmed that more closures are on the horizon
June 2, 2023 Closures Stranger Things: 1984 developer BonusXP to shut down The company behind Stranger Things: 1984 and Stranger Things 3: The Game is shuttering after 11 years
March 9, 2023 Studio Closure Gameloft shutters Budapest Studio amid shift away from mobile The company is aiming for success in the console and PC markets
February 1, 2023 Killed At Its Apex EA cancels Apex Legends Mobile and Battlefield Mobile The studio is also closing developer Industrial Toys
July 4, 2022 Hot Five Hot Five: layoffs at Unity, Niantic, and Adjust and AppLovin, 505 acquires D3, and Google's $90mil developer fund The hottest news articles on PG.biz
June 28, 2022 Shutdown 101 Studio becomes ByteDance’s first games unit closure Some staff will reportedly transfer to Bytedance's games division, Nuverse
June 20, 2022 Hot Five Hot Five: Diablo Immortal makes over $24 million in first two weeks, a third of gaming app businesses expect to close, and Beatstar's exclusive over Spotify The hottest news articles on PG.biz
June 6, 2022 Hot Five Hot Five: Playtika layoffs could reach 250, Supercell invests $60mil into Love & Pies, and Square Enix commits to NFTs The hottest news articles on PG.biz
June 1, 2022 Locational Layoffs Playtika to lay off 250 employees as it closes three development studios London, Los Angeles, and Montreal studios are closing, Helsinki studio considered
May 26, 2022 Breaking The Habit Force of Habit co-founder dives deep into the studio’s closure Twitter woes, commercial failures and porting issues, and fighting burnout among influences towards the one-man studio’s closure in May 2022
February 2, 2021 Shifting Focus Google to close Stadia Games and Entertainment studios Studio head Jade Raymond has departed the company too
February 27, 2020 Studio Closure Swedish mobile games developer Strange Quest is shutting down Almost three years since opening
February 20, 2020 Studio Closure Virtue Reality developer Ultimatum Games shuts down "We tried everything"
January 27, 2020 Fogbank Closure Report: Disney to shutter FoxNext-owned Fogbank Entertainment following Scopely acquisition 60 jobs reportedly affected by studio closure
January 8, 2020 Closure Digital tabletop game studio Fantasy Flight Interactive to shut down in February "It's been an amazing journey"
August 14, 2019 Dark Days Isbit Games closes after running out of funds “We have been working very hard to fight for the survival of the studio”
July 18, 2019 Studio Closure Terraforming Mars developer LuckyHammers closes down 70 staff lose their jobs
May 1, 2019 Studio Closure Robot toys maker Anki closes Close to 200 people out of a job with one week's severance pay after funding round falls through at the last minute
April 1, 2019 Jobs Losses More than 1,500 people have lost their jobs in the games industry in three months Estimates suggest total already exceeds 2018
March 28, 2019 Layoffs Update: EA's latest layoffs include the closure of its offices in Japan and Russia Publisher vows to help newly-redundant staff find new roles in the local games industry
March 19, 2019 Layoffs 5th Planet Games shuts down Nottingham studio 14 employees laid off in studio closure
February 28, 2019 Job Losses Brighton developer Wish Studios closes affecting 13 full-time employees Known for PlayLink title That’s You
February 15, 2019 Europe A Priority Activision Blizzard shuts down King’s San Francisco studio as it focuses on European development Mobile developer pulls out of US altogether
February 13, 2019 Studio Closure Report: King's Seattle studio to close Decision results in 78 job losses
November 22, 2018 Tough Times “It’s the best of times, it’s the worst of times": IGDA exec Jen MacLean on being a games developer in 2018 "We also know that the games industry is cyclical, and I suspect that some of the things that we see with studio closures are only the beginning"
November 16, 2018 Job Losses Tekken Mobile developer Bandai Namco Vancouver closes Senior vice president claims all but a "small skeleton crew" have been laid off at the Canada office
November 15, 2018 China Narrative games specialist Telltale begins liquidation proceedings Some of its earlier games have been removed from Steam
October 19, 2018 Putting The U In Union Ex-Telltale dev: "Developers deserve a lot better than what this industry is giving us right now" Former Telltale Games narrative designer Grace Buck gave the illuminating talk at the Sweden Games Conference
October 5, 2018 Undead The Walking Dead co-creator Robert Kirkman wants to make sure Telltale Games' Clementine story is told But right now there are no plans to bring her into the ongoing comic book series
October 5, 2018 Laid Off Report: Remaining Telltale Games staff get the boot One of the staff affected took to Twitter to confirm the news
October 4, 2018 Tale Continued? Telltale wants another company to hire ex-staff and finish The Walking Dead: The Final Season The third episode is reportedly nearly finished
October 3, 2018 Mobile Mavens Is Telltale's closure part of a wider industry trend or a cautionary tale? The mobile mavens offer their opinions
September 28, 2018 Closure Disney Canada layoffs as Club Penguin Island closes The web version of the social game had shut down the year prior
September 26, 2018 Legal Former employee hits Telltale Games with a class action lawsuit Redundancies made “without cause” may have broken state and federal labour laws
September 26, 2018 More Tales To Tell AMC and Smilegate backed out of Telltale financing talks day before closure Source says management painted AMC deal as done
September 25, 2018 Telltale Signs Failure to finalise new funding round the catalyst for mass Telltale Games layoffs Sources claim Lionsgate stopped funding Telltale to refocus on its own business
September 25, 2018 Cliffhanger Telltale moves to quell fan fears over The Walking Dead amid pressure to offer ex-employees severance The developer offered the update on Twitter
September 25, 2018 Tales To Tell Netflix evaluates options for Stranger Things game while Minecraft: Story Mode moves forward amid Telltale closure The streaming service confirmed the news in a written statement
September 24, 2018 Cancelled Telltale’s The Walking Dead and The Wolf Among Us unlikely to see completion, claims voice actress Clementine voice actress Melissa Hutchinson took to Twitter to share the news
September 24, 2018 Studio Closure “I'm mostly saddened for the people who are losing their jobs”: Ousted Telltale CEO speaks out on studio closure Kevin Bruner was originally ousted from the company last year by investors
September 24, 2018 Lay-off Woes Game Workers Unite issues scathing response to Telltale Games layoffs “The system for creating games is broken, and it will result in the collapse of many other beloved studios”
September 23, 2018 Studio Woes Telltale Games lays off majority of staff ahead of studio closure A summary of last week's news: makers of episodic games trimmed to a skeleton staff
September 20, 2018 Shutting Down Dead Rising and Puzzle Fighter studio Capcom Vancouver closes Around 158 job losses as a result
June 12, 2018 Moving Day InnoGames closes Dusseldorf studio and shifts production to Hamburg HQ The decision to shift production focus from Duesseldorf came in in late 2017