Casino esports startup Gamblit Gaming lays off unknown number of workers

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 1, 2019
Updated June 19, 2025
1 min

Gamblit Gaming, which helps casinos improve revenue by making cash-prize gambling video games, has laid off an unspecified number of people. A source notified GamesBeat of the layoffs and said they were significant, but Gamblit declined to say how many.

Eric Meyerhofer, CEO of Gamblit, responded with a statement, “We’re implementing changes at Gamblit Gaming to support continued innovation and growth by streamlining operations to improve profitability. We greatly appreciate our team’s contributions to Gamblit, and are offering support and severance packages to assist impacted employees.”

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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.