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Xbox Is Planning To Shutter Peabody-Award-Winning South Of Midnight Studio Compulsion Games

Update: Studio leadership is currently in negotiations with Microsoft

Rebekah Valentine, Ethan Gach Published June 15, 2026

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Ubisoft Closing Two Studios And Cutting Up To 380 Staff As Tough Restructuring Continues

Ubisoft Winnipeg is one of the offices that's shutting down

By Ethan Gach Published June 10, 2026
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MindsEye Studio Hit With More Mass Layoffs Just As It Was Promising A Turnaround

Roughly 170 members of Build a Rocket Boy's 250-person staff have been affected

By Lewis Parker Published May 5, 2026
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Marvel Snap Dev Says ‘Painful’ Layoffs Needed To ‘Make Sure We Can Keep Going’

Designer Ben Brode said the mobile card game's roadmap hasn't changed

By Ethan Gach Published May 2, 2026
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Marvel Actor Still In Disbelief Over Disney’s Sweeping Layoffs, Claims Artists ‘Are Now Being Replaced By AI’

Evangeline Lilly from Ant-Man had harsh words for the House of Mouse

By Ethan Gach Published May 1, 2026

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Deus Ex Studio Head Leaves After 19 Years As 124 People Lose Their Jobs After New Game Reportedly Canceled

David Anfossi has departed Eidos Montreal amid the massive cuts

By Ethan Gach Published March 30, 2026
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Epic Games Laying Off Over 1,000 Employees, Blames Drop In Fortnite Engagement

Epic CEO Tim Sweeney told staff he was 'sorry' this was happening again

By Zack Zwiezen Published March 24, 2026
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Tom Clancy Studio No Longer Making Games As It Lays Off 105 Developers

Red Storm losing staff and becoming a support team is the latest cost-cutting move by Ubisoft following its massive Tencent bailout

By Zack Zwiezen Published March 19, 2026
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Battlefield 6, The Best-Selling Game Of 2025, Hit With Layoffs

EA is reportedly laying off developers across the various studios that worked on the first-person shooter

By Zack Zwiezen Published March 9, 2026
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Skate Studio Says It’s Laying Devs Off In Order To ‘Better Support’ The Game

Full Circle says it is still committed to updating the online skating game

By Zack Zwiezen Published February 25, 2026

OpinionCommentary

Sony’s PS5-Era Studio Acquisition Spree Has Been A Disaster

Bluepoint's reported shutdown is just the latest example of Sony struggling after buying up nearly a dozen studios since 2019

By Zack Zwiezen Published February 19, 2026
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Wild Cyberpunk Heist Shooter Where You Hack People’s Brains To Steal Data Faces Layoffs Before It’s Even Out

Den of Wolves isn't out yet and its developers are already being laid off

By Ethan Gach Published February 14, 2026
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Ubisoft Assassin’s Creed Dev Fired Less Than Two Weeks After Criticizing Company’s Plans To End Work From Home

David Michaud-Cromp was previously punished with an unpaid suspension for publicly pushing back

By Zack Zwiezen Published February 2, 2026
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Deadpool Studio And More Closed As Meta Chases AI Instead Of Gaming [Update]

Twisted Pixel, Armature, and Sanzaru Games have been gutted according to laid off employees

By Zack Zwiezen Updated January 14, 2026
ReviewsYear in Review

The 10 Biggest Gaming Disappointments Of 2025

AI slop infected more games, cool stuff was canned, people lost their jobs, and other horrible video game news from 2025

By Zack Zwiezen Published December 24, 2025

ReviewsYear in Review

The State Of Xbox And Game Pass In 2025

Xbox had great games in 2025, but everything else is bad, bad, bad, bad

By Zack Zwiezen Published December 15, 2025
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Another Long-Time Game Studio Is On The Chopping Block After Being Bought By Private Equity

Splash Damage, the studio behind Gears Tactics and Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, announced possible layoffs

By Zack Zwiezen Published November 26, 2025
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Tomb Raider Studio Faces ‘Painful’ Layoffs To ‘Optimize’ Development

We still haven't seen anything of the Amazon Games sequel

By Ethan Gach Published November 13, 2025
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Amazon Scales Back Gaming Ambitions Amid 14,000 Layoffs

The tech company had previously announced a Lord of the Rings MMO

By Ethan Gach Published October 28, 2025
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Ubisoft Asks Devs At Star Wars Outlaws Studio To Lay Themselves Off

Massive gets downsized

By Ethan Gach Published October 22, 2025

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