More Telltale Employees Laid Off As Studio Continues Its Collapse
After Telltale laid off roughly 90% of its staff on September 21, the studio said the remaining 25 employees would…
Telltale Employees Left Stunned By Company Closure, No Severance [Update]
Telltale Games employees were surprised when CEO Pete Hawley announced the closure of the company at a staff-wide…
Telltale Games Begins 'Majority Studio Closure'
Telltale Games, makers of The Walking Dead adventure games and several other episodic series, laid off many of its…
WildStar Developer Carbine Studios Shuts Down
Carbine Studios, the developer of the massively multiplayer online game WildStar, is shutting down, Kotaku has learned.…
Big Layoffs Hit Mafia III Developer Hangar 13
Mafia III developer Hangar 13 laid off a significant number of staff today, in yet another example of the video game…
Eve Developer CCP Stops Making VR Games, Drops Two Studios
In 2013, Eve Online developer CCP Games introduced Eve: Valkyrie, one of the current crop of virtual reality hardware’s…
Activision Has Big Layoffs Despite Surpassing Financial Targets
Activision Publishing laid off a number of employees across several companies this week, Kotaku has learned. The…
Nintendo confirmed to South Korean news site Gameple that they are not planning to pull out of the local market, and…
Scribblenauts developer 5th Cell laid off 45 employees today, following layoffs last week, the studio told me. Contrary…
Motiga, the developers behind cute-as-heck MOBA Gigantic, have announced “significant, temporary studio layoffs.” The…
Sources: Game Studio Red 5 Misses Payroll On Christmas [UPDATE]
Video game development studio Red 5, best known as the company behind the online game Firefall, missed payroll last…
About half of the studio behind Driveclub are getting laid off, according to Eurogamer. Created by veteran developers…
The Pizza Party Where Everyone Got Fired
Yesterday, the game development studio Daybreak went through massive layoffs, culling a large number of jobs in order…
Sega is firing some 300 people in their publishing division as they continue to shift away from consoles to focus more…
Waiting Five Hours To Get Fired In Five Minutes
Today we've got another batch of stories from people who have been affected by the never-ending cycle of layoffs that…
Nintendo of Europe Lays Off 320 People
Around 320 employees at Nintendo of Europe will lose their jobs this week, the company confirmed to Kotaku today.
'I Learned My Company Was Getting Shut Down Over Twitter'
Here are five more stories of people involved in the painful job cuts that happen in the games business all the time.…
Video Game Layoff Stories
Confiscated e-mails. Sinking ships. The looming feeling that layoffs are coming, and there's nothing you can do to save…
Why Game Developers Keep Getting Laid Off
On a May morning in Rhode Island two years ago, a reporter for the Providence Journal stood outside the doors of 38…