More layoffs and studio closures
In 2022, if there is one thing you can count on, it’s a big company laying people off and closing up studios to save money. This year we saw G4 gutted and killed, Fanbyte destroyed by Tencent (oh hey, look who popped up again on here…), Unity laid off a ton of staff, and Pokemon GO studio Niantic fired 80 people, too. And that’s just some of the layoffs that occurred in 2022. We also saw the closure of Square Enix Montreal aka Onoma just a month after Embracer (oh hey…) rebranded the studio.
