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Germany’s Gameforge doubles down on PC games as it lays off mobile staff

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Gameforge said it has acquired a military PC game from Aeria Games, even as the German game publisher laid off staff making mobile games.

Earlier this week, Gameforge said it would lay off a fifth of its workers in Karlsruhe, Germany. The company didn’t say how many were affected, but others have reported about 90 jobs were cut. The move shows that while the $36 billion mobile game market is enticing, it is also brutally competitive.

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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.