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Amir Satvat finds the smallest of tea leaves for the game job market: growth is returning

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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The years long malaise in game job hiring might finally be ending. Amir Satvat, the game community job resource aggregator, said in a post that the job market data he sees is finally turning around.

“Keep fighting, everybody. There will be other bumps in the road, but the overwhelming amount of data has me convinced things are turning in the games jobs market,” said Satvat in a post on LinkedIn.

Everything is triangulating right, he said. The stats show positive velocity in the turnover of hiring for roles, stability in the overall number of games positions, and information from candidates indicates that placement rates outside of games are improving (tech hiring is picking up).

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.