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Game job layoff forecast is getting better, with job cuts slowing dramatically in July

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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In a rare bit of positive news, Amir Satvat, a jobs quant, said he sees an improved outlook when it comes to layoffs in the game industry. Satvat is the only one making such forecasts, and he reduced the number of layoffs he expects to happen in the second half of the year.

If you haven’t been following, the game industry has been in a post-pandemic layoff rut because game companies hired too many folks in the pandemic boom and then saw a drop off in game playing as people went back to outdoor pursuits in post-pandemic times.

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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.