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Germany’s Goodgame Studios sheds 200 employees and focuses on core business

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Goodgame Studios said today that it is reorganizing itself to focus on its core online and mobile games such as Goodgame Empire and Big Farm. In doing so, the Hamburg, Germany-based company is laying off 200 employees.

The free-to-play game maker said it is speeding up the process it began last summer of focusing on its core business. The company said it is doing so as a result of increasing competition in a volatile free-to-play games market. To date, the company’s games have been downloaded 300 million 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.