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Unity lays off hundreds to prepare for ad weakness

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Unity Technologies laid off hundreds of employees at its offices around the globe. The layoffs affected at least 150 employees and possibly more, according to posts on Blind.

Unity confirmed it had layoffs. The reports said some (unreported) layoffs at least a month ago. Another round of layoffs began on Tuesday and continued this week. One source told GamesBeat that 263 employees were affected.

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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.