Amir Satvat's latest game layoffs analysis.
Amir Satvat's latest game layoffs analysis.
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Game layoffs continue to slow down through early May | Amir Satvat

Game layoffs haven’t disappeared, but they have slowed down in 2025, according to data from game job champion Amir Satvat. It prompted him to write a LinkedIn post with the title, “2025 Games Layoffs Update: Is The Worst Behind Us?”

As of May 9, the games industry has experienced 2,705 layoffs this year, Satvat wrote. He said he used a Holt-Winters time series model trained on historicals and all of his community data since 2022.

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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.