This 2017 ESA report showed where game jobs and companies were in the U.S.
This 2017 ESA report showed where game jobs and companies were in the U.S.
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Making it easier to find game jobs in the economic downturn (updated)

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 2 min

With the 11,000 layoffs at Meta (Facebook) and the 3,500 at Twitter in the past week, the downturn afflicting the tech industry is getting serious. There are games-related layoffs at the big companies as well, and it seems the game industry will not be immune from these (hopefully temporary) setbacks.

But I have found some people doing work that will help those looking for work in the gaming industry. Amir Satvat, a principal publishing producer at Amazon Games, has put together a regularly updated list of job openings at game companies, as well as other resources for job seekers.

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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.