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Survive until 25? We’re off to a rough start | The DeanBeat

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Last year, the saying going around the game industry was Survive until 25. The hope was that things would get better after a very rough year for game layoffs and player doldrums. Now we might start thinking about Survive until 26.

So far this year, in the first month of 2025, we’ve had 19 game companies announce closures or layoffs, with a total of at least 500 lost jobs.

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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.