May 31, 2024 Jobs News Mobile Movers: All the latest appointments and job moves from around the industry Who's moving where?… This month there's new roles at Supercell, Homa, Fingersoft, Lightspeed Studios, Netflix and more…
May 22, 2024 Financials Serbia's 15 most successful gaming companies made €175m in 2023 The Serbian Games Association reports revenue is up 17% year-on-year with 475 new positions being opened this year
May 20, 2024 Skills Gap Evolving the leadership at Sumo to bridge the industry skills gap Jenny Muhlwa shares her insight into the gaming industry's skills gap and how Sumo’s Evolve leadership programme aims to deliver the goods
May 14, 2024 Jobs News PlayStation names new CEOs Hermen Hulst and Hideaki Nishino The duo replace Jim Ryan, who exited the company after 30 years
May 14, 2024 Resignation Marc Whitten is out at Unity His resignation is on the table and he'll be paid off at the end of the year with, as yet, no plans for his replacement
May 13, 2024 Layoffs Square Enix braces for layoffs in US and Europe IT, publishing and Square Enix Collective teams set to be hit by redundancies
May 13, 2024 Job Losses Australian dev Mighty Kingdom layoffs of 28% of staff Studio expects annualised cost savings of $2.1 million
May 7, 2024 Job Losses Microsoft closes Mighty Doom dev Alpha Dog, Arkane Austin, Tango Gameworks and more Bethesda the latest in the firing line following 1,900+ layoffs at Activision and Xbox earlier this year
April 29, 2024 Job News GEM Capital appoints three new advisory board members This will shape the future of gaming investing for many years to come," said GEM Capital’s managing director Roman Gurskiy
April 19, 2024 Week That Was Week in Views - The search for skills, billion dollar birthdays and terrific transmedia The Pocketgamer.biz team pick their highlights from the headlines this week and deliver the stories behind the stories
April 18, 2024 Skills Crisis UK skills crisis prompts call for games industry-led body to tackle key challenges Report reveals shortages of mid-to-senior level staff and lack of opportunities for junior developers
April 16, 2024 Job Losses GTA publisher Take-Two to cut 5% of staff as it cancels new games Move will cost up to $200 million
April 11, 2024 Spring Survey Values Value and InGame Job launch the Big Games Industry Employment Survey 2024 The survey is looking to understand how layoffs are affecting confidence in the future of the games industry
April 2, 2024 Job Cuts Ubisoft's woes continue with 45 further redundancies across the globe The giant continues to shed staff as it gets a grip on falling profits and a slowdown in mobile activity
March 28, 2024 Loads Of Layoffs Sega lays off 240 employees and sells Relic Entertainment Sega Europe, Creative Assembly and Sega HARDlight are all affected by the layoffs
March 27, 2024 King Calls King appoints ex-TomTom and Zalando exec Eric Bowman as CTO Steve Colins steps down from the role to explore AI and return to investment world
March 19, 2024 Jobs News Mobile Movers: All the latest appointments and job moves from around the industry Moving and shaking - there's new roles at Supercell, Keywords Studios, Microsoft, Griffin Gaming Partners, AdInMo and The Games Fund
March 4, 2024 Job Losses Tennis Clash developer Wildlife Studios lays off 133 staff "Our investment in new games remains unaffected"
February 28, 2024 Job Losses EA lays off 5% of staff as it cuts licensing deals and closes offices Restructuring plan will cost publisher up to $165 million
February 19, 2024 Booted From Blizzard 136 jobs cut as Blizzard axes 68% of employees in Ireland Blizzard’s Cork office employs around 200 people, roughly half of all its employees in the Republic of Ireland
February 9, 2024 Mobile Mavens Mobile Mavens: Jobs 2024: How to find the best talent and land your dream role Our Mobile Mavens share their thoughts on the current hiring and careers landscape
February 5, 2024 Job Moves Devolver Digital CEO steps down and moves on Douglas Morin is leaving the company following their latest on-track financials, after a difficult year, delays, cuts and an underperforming IPO
January 30, 2024 Blizzard names Call of Duty GM Johanna Faries as new president New appointment comes as previous incumbent Mike Ybarra exits the company
January 19, 2024 Pgc London Turn recruitment into retention at Pocket Gamer Connects London Industry experts share strategies for talent acquisition, diversity, resilience and navigating setbacks this Monday January 22nd
January 8, 2024 Job Losses Unity to lay off 1,800 staff as it continues company reset Redundancies amount to a quarter of its workforce
January 5, 2024 Bouncing Back My personal rollercoaster of job hunting and growth in the games industry Gamedev Camp founder Olle Pridiuksson discusses losing his job in 2019 and why he needed a change in approach to his career
January 4, 2024 Recruitment Special New Year, New Job 2024: Wanted: Your recruitment tips for 2024! Got good advice for landing that dream job? We want to hear it! Our new campaign will hook up great employees with dream jobs. But we need you to be part of the action
December 22, 2023 Job Losses Versus Evil shuts down and lays off all 13 staff News comes just weeks after GM announced departure
December 21, 2023 Kotick Conclusion Leadership changes under Microsoft as Bobby Kotick departure date confirmed Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard means leadership changes and a transition period ahead
December 20, 2023 Metacore Manoeuvre Metacore appoints new CTO in first key hire at Berlin studio Sérgio Laranjeira’s former roles include senior director of engineering at Delivery Hero and engineering manager at Zalando and N26
December 18, 2023 Careers Zone London Joint venture between PG Connects and Games Factory Talents creates career opportunities in London Get a career boost at PG Connects London this January with support from Games Factory Talents.
December 15, 2023 Recruitment Drive Fortis Games bolsters senior team with string of hires from GameClub, Twitch, Mojang and more Former GameClub CEO Dan Sherman joins as chief business officer while head of strategic programs Jing Wang takes on new role as VP of product
December 4, 2023 New Horizons Babil Games co-founders AJ and MJ Fahmi depart for new ventures After 11 years building the mobile company, the COO and CEO are now on a new path to find new opportunities and challenges
November 29, 2023 Job Losses Unity lays off 265 as it restructures its deal with digital effects creator Weta Unity's upheavals continue with a "company reset" on their existing deal with Weta, resulting in the loss of key digital effects talent
November 24, 2023 Week That Was Week in Views - What caught our eyes in the last seven days The Pocketgamer.biz team take their pick of this weeks big news, including OpenAI Wars, job crisis (what job crisis?), studio closures and livestreaming's hottest new player…
November 24, 2023 Jobs Crisis Why is the UK games industry struggling to fill vacancies despite mass layoffs? Games Jobs Live director Colin Macdonald and One Player Mission owner Kim Parker Adcock discuss the sector's leaky bucket problem
November 17, 2023 Super Hires Supercell expands leadership team with first CMO and new head of live games Former Mojang head of games Sara Bach and ex-King CMO Fernanda Romano recruited in senior roles
November 14, 2023 Job Losses Indie publisher Humble Games confirms layoffs “We have experienced trends that required this restructure in order to ensure our long-term success”
November 13, 2023 More Job Losses Amazon lays off 180 staff from games division Tech giant has laid off more than 27,000 employees during the past year
November 13, 2023 Paige Promotion Paige Cook promoted to Deputy Editor at PocketGamer.biz Rising star previously served as features editor
November 13, 2023 Job News Nick Poole has been appointed as the new Ukie CEO Poole starts in his new role on April 1 2024, taking over from Dr Joe Twist and interim co-CEOs Sam Collins and Dan Wood
November 1, 2023 Job Losses AdVenture Capitalist dev Hyper Hippo lays off over a quarter of staff Redundancies hit various departments, including production and marketing
October 30, 2023 Chapple Comeback Craig Chapple returns to PocketGamer.biz as Head of Content Chapple will work with the team on providing industry leading news, expert interviews and insightful analyses
September 29, 2023 Feature Mass games industry job losses in 2023, but is the end in sight? Not counting the losses at Alphabet, these collective layoffs surpass 3000 jobs
September 8, 2023 Job News Rovio Stockholm appoints Johannes Mang as head of studio Mang brings more than 20 years of experience to his new role
August 21, 2023 Jobs News August's Mobile Movers and Shakers: Anna Sweet joins Super Evil Megacorp, Rohan Premnath moves to Odeeo and more August has seen some significant moves by some of the industry's biggest company's - here's the highlights from the last week
August 14, 2023 Jobs News August's Mobile Movers and Shakers: Ahmed Sharif joins Sandsoft, Jeaneane Falkler moves to Room 8 and more August has seen some significant moves by some of the industry's biggest company's - here's the highlights from the last week