Supermassive Games adds to the expanding list of industry layoffs
Supermassive Games, the developer of Until Dawn and The Dark Pictures anthology, announced today that it is adding to the growing list of studios...
Games VC funding reaches new plateau after 72% YoY decline | PitchBook
Venture capital funding in games leveled out and established a new baseline according to PitchBook’s Q4 2023 Gaming Report. Over the last five quarters,...
Loric Games raises $4M in funding, appoints Jeff Hickman as CPO
Loric Games announced today that it’s both closed a new round of funding on its upcoming game, and that it’s also made a major...
Discord cuts 17% of employees to ‘sharpen its focus’
Discord today joined the list of companies laying off employees in 2024, which includes likes of Unity and Amazon. The company announced in a...
Twitch issues layoffs to over 500 staff to ‘rightsize’ its workforce
Twitch, the Amazon-owned live streaming platform, has laid off 35% of its staff, or just over 500 employees. CEO Dan Clancy said these cuts...
Natalya Tatarchuk named Activision CTO in first post-Kotick leadership change
Activision Publishing has named Natalya Tatarchuk as its new CTO. In her new role, Tatarchuk will oversee the company’s top-level technology goals across Activision’s...
Blizzard covers DE&I in wrap-up of tumultuous year
Blizzard has released its end-of-year review for 2023, in which it discusses some of the major changes of the company’s culture in 2023. This...
Activision Blizzard to settle CA unequal pay case for $56M
Edited at 7:45pm PT — The original version of this article incorrectly stated the settlement was related to sexual harassment, not unequal employment practices...
Fntastic shutters days after launch of controversial title The Day Before
Game developer Fntastic announced today that it is shutting down, only a few days after it launched its shooter MMO, The Day Before. The...
Experis QA workers for Forza Motorsport, Starfield vote to unionize
Quality assurance workers at Experis Game Solutions voted this week to unionize with the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) District 10....