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 Evolution Studios, the PS4 exclusive racing game suffered an extremely rocky launch last year, but a series of updates improved Driveclub significantly. Read more
Yesterday, the game development studio Daybreak went through massive layoffs, culling a large number of jobs in…
Sega is firing some 300 people in their publishing division as they continue to shift away from consoles to focus more on smartphone and online PC games.
Around 320 employees at Nintendo of Europe will lose their jobs this week, the company confirmed to Kotaku today.
Here are five more stories of people involved in the painful job cuts that happen in the games business all the…
Confiscated e-mails. Sinking ships. The looming feeling that layoffs are coming, and there's nothing you can do to…
On a May morning in Rhode Island two years ago, a reporter for the Providence Journal stood outside the doors of 38…
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Airtight Studios will be working with a few less hands on deck. The Seattle-based development studio behind upcoming ghost mystery game Murdered: Soul Suspect has issued a statement saying they've laid off 14 people, saying "this restructuring is part of the normal ebb and flow of game production." This news comes on… Read more
Disney has laid off 700 employees from their gaming division today, as the New York Times reports. That's 26% of…
Disney plans to lay off hundreds of people in their interactive-media department this week, the Wall Street Journal…
Crystal Dynamics, the studio behind Tomb Raider and its upcoming sequel, has laid off a small team of staff, Kotaku…
Wondering just how many game studios have laid off employees in 2013 so far? A new website called GameJobWatch will help you navigate. Laid-off developers looking for work can also post their resumes in case recruiters come calling.
The company behind FarmVille just got a little smaller. Zynga, the troubled developer responsible for a number of…
We're hearing of big layoffs at Trion Worlds, the company behind big online games like Rift and Defiance.
EA laid off a whole bunch of staff today, and temporary CEO Larry Probst sent out a letter to employees that Kotaku…
In the name of "sharpening its focus to provide games for new platforms and mobile," EA instituted another round of…
Most of the folks on the Deadpool team at Activision-owned High Moon Studios were let go today, having completed…