EA cuts 670 roles, cancels Respawn Star Wars FPS and more
Electronic Arts has announced a new round of layoffs cutting 5% of the company’s workforce or roughly 670 roles. In addition to this reorg,...
NetEase, ex-CoD lead David Vonderhaar launch AAA studio BulletFarm
NetEase Games has partnered with veteran game designer David Vonderhaar to launch BulletFarm, a remote-first triple-A studio. Under Vonderhaar’s leadership, BulletFarm is developing a...
ESL Faceit Group lays off 15% of staff 2 years after $1.5B merger
ESL Faceit Group (EFG) is laying off 15% of its global workforce in an effort to reduce organizational complexity. This translates to the esports...
Sony plans to lay off 900 employees as part of global restructuring
Sony Interactive Entertainment announced today that it plans to lay off around 8% of its global workforce, or around 900 people. According to SIE...
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...