Another Embracer owned studio impacted with layoffs.

More unfortunate news from the gaming industry today as a new report from Gamedeveloper.com says that layoffs have hit Gearbox Publishing. The report notes that layoffs have been happening at Gearbox Publishing "throughout the summer and as recently as this week."

This marks the second Embracer Group owned studio to make headlines today. The first was Volition and the unfortunate news of that entire studio...

BioWare is making a "shift towards a more agile and more focused studio."

Gary McKay, BioWare's general manager, released a statement today saying that they are laying off "approximately 50 roles" at their company. McKay says that this is being done in an effort to "shift towards a more agile and more focused studio."

McKay says that this sort of change is "not only necessary, but unavoidable." He also notes how the decision to layoff...

The company announced in June it would start closing studios and laying off employees.

Campfire Cabal has been shut down by Embracer Group. Campfire Cabal is the first studio being shut down by Embracer after a deal worth $2 billion (USD) fell through several months back.

The closure of Campfire Cabal was first shared on LinkedIn (via bogorad222 on Twitter) by Bruno-Christian Belibou, the now former executive producer at Campfire Cabal.

Campfire Cabal first...

The layoffs account for about 9% of the company's total workforce.

Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt Red shared some unfortunate news today. As part of an "organizational update" the developer says that they have recently laid off around 100 employees. These employees accounted for roughly 9% of CD Projekt Red's total workforce.

CD Projekt Red says that they have been overstaffed. The studio found that there just wouldn't be any new opportunities for these...

The layoffs come as part of a company "restructuring."

Electronic Arts announced today that they are laying off about 6% of their total workforce as part of a new restructuring plan. This same plan also includes "optimizing its real estate portfolio and re-focusing its efforts around growth opportunities." This unfortunate news comes to us courtesy of GamesIndustry.biz.

As of their last annual report, EA employed 12,900 people globally. This information...

The Twitch layoffs are just a part of the more than 9,000 positions eliminated from Amazon today.

On Monday, Amazon announced plans to cut another 9,000 positions from areas including Amazon Web Services (AWS), human resources, advertising, and Twitch. The additional 9,000 layoffs are planned to be completed by the end of April and follow the 18,000 people that have already been laid off from Amazon from December 2022 through January 2023.

Amazon says that these layoffs...

Of all the ways to let someone go, doing it via a Zoom call and after a night shift shouldn't be one of them.

On February 28, EA tried to quietly lay off over 200 quality assurance (QA) testers from their Baton Rouge office. These QA testers were primarily working on the Respawn Entertainment developed battle royale game Apex Legends. The initial reporting about these layoffs came to light via Kotaku, who says that the layoffs happened via a Zoom call.

The process of laying...

Employees across several Microsoft owned studios were just let go from the company.

Microsoft announced plans to layoff 10,000 employees, a decision that CEO Satya Nadella calls "difficult but necessary." A statement issued to employees, made public by Microsoft, does not go into detail just how many departments are being impacted. However, we do know that the Xbox division at Microsoft did not come away unscathed.

Several studios under Xbox were impacted by...

Developers from all three studios have been let go.

Mafia 3 developer, Hangar 13, has been hit by yet another round of staff layoffs this week. Kotaku reports that developers across all three of Hangar 13's studios were let go today. The studio located in Novato, California saw nearly 50 developers lose their jobs today. For a location that previously had 87 employees prior to today's layoffs, that is a substantial number.

Hangar 13 also saw a significant number of layoffs...

Half of a buttload of money is still a buttload of money.

This morning, an agreement filed with the SEC found Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick agreeing to cut both his salary and annual bonus by 50%. Other incentives, such as the Transformation Transaction Award and Shareholder Value Creation Incentive were also eliminated. The Shareholder Value Creation Incentive was reported to be valued at upwards of $200 million in stock value, or $41 million after tax withholdings.
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Layoffs are the result of a company "realignment."

Multiple employees have been laid off from Daybreak Games. These layoffs occured at the end of the week last week and have seemingly impacted every department within the company. The San Diego-based studio is responsible for games such as Planetside 2, H1Z1, and the newly launched Planetside Arena.

Planetside Arena went into Early Access just this past month, but so far the reception has been tepid, at best,...

Retailer continues to barely cling to life.

GameStop has laid off over a hundred employees today. These layoffs have hit its main corporate HQ in Grapevine, Texas along with some of company's subsidiaries. One such subsidiary that was hit hard was Game Informer. Nearly half of the Game Informer staff was laid off today.

This latest round of layoffs actually happened just a few weeks after the company laid off over 50 employees, mainly regional managers. GameStop has been...

This morning, it was reported that Electronic Arts has laid off 350 people from a number of departments. According to Kotaku, the areas that were hardest hit today were marketing and publishing. An internal email from EA's Andrew Wilson, also obtained by Kotaku, says that the decision to "streamline decision-making" in these departments began last year. This move also seems to include a push to improve customer support and close offices in Russia and Japan.


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