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Disney Interactive lays off 700 employees, or 26 percent of game division

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Disney Interactive is cutting 700 jobs, or 26 percent of its work force, as the company tries to make its game and Internet division more profitable.

The cuts are expected to hit Disney’s Playdom social games group the hardest. Disney bought Playdom for $563 million-plus in 2010 when the Facebook gaming craze was at its peak.

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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.