May 1, 2024 Loads Of Layoffs Belka Games lays off 20% of workforce as it becomes "more critical" of future titles At least 33 people have been let go, including a number of team leads
April 29, 2024 Loads Of Layoffs A Thinking Ape lays off staff across game design, software engineering, art teams and more Layoffs continue to impact the games industry as restructuring persists in 2024
April 22, 2024 Hot Five Hot Five: Earth Day, birthdays, game closures, layoffs and more. Here's what's hot right now… Our quick-fix roundup of the hottest stories on PocketGamer.biz
April 16, 2024 Loads Of Layoffs Kwalee layoffs impact up to 10% of workforce, report claims Kwalee has laid off up to 40 people as industry-wide job cuts continue
March 1, 2024 Week That Was Week in Views - Apple impatience, Unity mismanagement and Sony surprises The Pocketgamer.biz team pick their highlights from the headlines this week and deliver the stories behind the stories
March 1, 2024 Job News 505 Games downsizes operations, closes offices in Spain, France and Germany The news first broke as part of the company's initial announcement in November 2023
February 29, 2024 Tough Times 2024's games industry lay-offs: The stories so far - all in one place As February 2024 closes, the industry still travelling through tough times. Here are all the companies that have resized, restructured and shed staff so far this year
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 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 Job Cuts Sony Interactive Entertainment axes 900 staff across the globe Around 8% of PlayStation's global gaming staff will be laid off, with only the UK studios affected being named so far
February 26, 2024 Jobs Cuts EA lays off staff after sunsetting MLB Tap Sports and F1 Mobile Racing “Unfortunately, the game was unable to meet our performance expectations".
February 26, 2024 Hot Five Hot Five: Microsoft goes multiplat, Fortnite to return to iOS, but global games industry layoffs continue Our quick-fix roundup of the hottest stories on PocketGamer.biz
February 23, 2024 Week That Was Week in Views - Tough talk, turning tides and big players go mobile The Pocketgamer.biz team pick their highlights from the headlines this week and deliver the stories behind the stories
February 22, 2024 Extreme Expenses Thunderful lost $59 million in 2023 after Q4 profit fell 574% Thunderful is laying off approximately 100 staff in the first half of 2024 to cut costs
February 22, 2024 Job Cuts Global layoffs at Gameloft as staff in Ukraine and Canada confirm redundancies At least 38 staff are leaving their Lviv, Ukraine office with as yet unconfirmed numbers departing Toronto, Canada
February 20, 2024 Job Cuts Ex-GTA producer’s studio, Build A Rocket Boy reveals layoffs The studio headed up by Leslie Benzies with high profile titles on the way is to remove “a number of roles globally"
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 13, 2024 Job Losses Scopely's Kingdom Maker team sees lay-offs The losses centre around developer Global Worldwide and their Kingdom Maker mobile game
January 25, 2024 New Broom Blizzard president Mike Ybarra is out as Microsoft lays off 1,900 The inevitable restructure and consolidation of the two giants - with the nuking of dual roles and now superfluous departments - didn't take long…
January 23, 2024 Pgc London You were laid off… What now? An insightful PGC London panel discusses experience with layoffs and what to do next
January 18, 2024 More Job Cuts Support studio PTW cuts 45 positions as game industry layoffs continue The impacted workforce primarily consisted of QA workers, but job cuts also extended to other departments
January 18, 2024 Job Cuts Layoffs confirmed at Choices: Stories You Play maker, Pixelberry Studios The layoffs will affect various roles, spanning from QA staff and producers to artists and programmers
January 18, 2024 Google Says Go Google lays off 1,000+ employees in stealth as AI takes on the workload Employees from ad sales, hardware, AR, Pixel, YouTube and more have been quietly let go through the month
January 16, 2024 Job Losses Netspeak CEO announces the loss of approximately 25 jobs After a successful soft launch of their first game, Sunshine Days, it appears that further investment to continue its development has, as yet, not been forthcoming
January 12, 2024 Week That Was Week in Views - from Unity 'ripping off the band aid' to SAG-AFTRA's AI rollover. Here's our pick of what's hot The Pocketgamer.biz team pick their highlights from the headlines this week and deliver the stories behind the stories
January 12, 2024 Job Losses Discord to cut 17% of its workforce Following four years of success, Discord makes its second round of cuts in five months in order to redress earlier over expansion
January 12, 2024 Job Losses Cookie Run maker's Devsisters USA office to remain open despite layoffs Albert Chung, director of US operations & marketing: "Devsisters USA remains committed to delivering quality entertainment to our fans and community."
January 11, 2024 Job Losses Playtika to cut 300 - 400 more jobs in latest rounds of layoffs Another 10% of the workforce are set to go following the loss of jobs through 2022 and an unsuccessful attempt to acquire Rovio in 2023
January 11, 2024 Executive Exit Unity restructure sees six ironSource co-founders step down New CEO Jim Whitehurst clears the decks with key ironSource figures moving to non-executive roles while Tomer Bar-Zeev will continue to serve on the Board of Directors
January 11, 2024 Job Losses Cookie Run makers Devsisters shutters US office Ex-staff take to LinkedIn to share the news of layoffs at the Korean company's US office
December 14, 2023 Layoff After Layoff A third of the workforce slashed in 2023 as Hasbro lets go another 1,100 roles Hasbro’s toyline sales slump is to blame, not its video games
November 29, 2023 Plaice No More Fishlabs is laying off around 50 employees as Embracer Group restructure continues The German games developer was bought out by Embracer subsidiary Plaion 10 years ago
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
May 4, 2023 Layoffs 600 jobs go as Unity completes their largest round of layoffs yet The company is making an effort to “streamline” operations