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Big Fish Games lays off staff, shuts Vancouver office, and closes cloud business

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Big Fish Games said today that it is laying off 49 employees in Seattle and is shutting its office in Vancouver and moving those projects to Seattle.

Paul Thelen, the chief executive of Big Fish, said in a memo to the staff that the cost-cutting move is aimed at exiting business areas that are not growing or profitable. That includes closing the company’s cloud delivery business, which is not growing as fast as Big Fish had hoped and is not on a path to profitability.

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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.