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Annapurna Interactive represented the pinnacle of indie games | The DeanBeat

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 4 min

We heard the news yesterday that all 25 of Annapurna Interactive’s team resigned after a deal fell through to spin them out of the entertainment company Annapurna.

It was a sad moment not only because it added 25 more people to the list of 12,700 game workers put out of work so far this year. Microsoft chose the same day to lay off 650 more people as a result of its slowdown and need to be more efficient. It was a terrible National Video Game Day. I was so sorry to see the Microsoft layoffs happen again, just when things seemed like they were starting to turn around.

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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.