Categories Posted inin Development The latest state of the game jobs market | Amir Satvat Posted byby Dean Takahashi June 13, 2025 4 min Amir Satvat provides a lot of job resources for games. He has built a big community of game people, and they are providing him... Continue Reading 4 min
Categories Posted inin BusinessDevelopment The latest state of the game jobs market | Amir Satvat Posted byby Dean Takahashi June 13, 2025 4 min Amir Satvat provides a lot of job resources for games. He has built a big community of game people, and they are providing him... Continue Reading 4 min
Categories Posted inin Business Game layoffs continue to slow down through early May | Amir Satvat Posted byby Dean Takahashi May 9, 2025 2 min 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... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Development How many people work in the game industry? | Two different views Posted byby Dean Takahashi April 26, 2025 6 min Amir Satvat, the game job champion, estimated recently that about 230,000 people work in the game industry. That sounded low to Kenn White, one... Continue Reading 6 min
Categories Posted inin Business Game layoffs slow down faster than expected in 2025 Posted byby Dean Takahashi April 5, 2025 2 min Layoffs in the game industry have slowed down somewhat in the first few months of 2025, according to game job champion Amir Satvat. Unlock... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Development How Amir Satvat finds jobs for thousands of game industry people | The DeanBeat Posted byby GamesBeat March 28, 2025 28 min Amir Satvat is the undisputed game job champion. During the game industry’s worst job downturn in the past 2.5 years, about 35,000 game jobs... Continue Reading 28 min
Categories Posted inin Business Hiring may finally be matching the layoff rate in games | Amir Satvat Posted byby Dean Takahashi February 3, 2025 3 min For a solid 30 months — perhaps the worst in gaming history — there have been more layoffs than hiring in gaming. That may... Continue Reading 3 min
Categories Posted inin Business The Games Awards 2024 grows 31% to record 154M livestreams Posted byby Dean Takahashi December 18, 2024 5 min The Game Awards, the video game industry’s year-end celebration, announced its 10th anniversary show broke viewership records with an estimated 154 million global livestreams,... Continue Reading 5 min
Categories Posted inin Business GDC 2025 gives 240 passes to Amir Satvat’s games community Posted byby Dean Takahashi November 11, 2024 2 min The Game Developers Conference has decided to help Amir Satvat’s Games Community with the equivalent of a $108,000 grant in the form of GDC... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business For game job seekers, the search often leads outside of gaming Posted byby Dean Takahashi November 5, 2024 6 min Amir Satvat has been churning out one study after another on the game job market, and his latest one shows that those seeking game... Continue Reading 6 min