Early in 2019, Activision Blizzard dropped more than 800 employees, despite record-breaking revenue for the year previous. The company underwent a major consolidation and restructuring effort after the profits and losses “missed expectations”, which is just corporate speak for “we’re greedy and need to stud our golden parachutes with diamonds.” Don’t believe me? The final
Amazon has some bad news for gamers looking forward to what the retail and tech giant had in the pipeline for their various game projects, but things don’t look so good for the future of a new mega-publisher in the games industry. Yesterday, a number of employees were laid off from Amazon Game Studios, according
Rumblings about low pay, poor morale and toxic corporate culture have been around in the games industry for decades. With sustained periods of crunch becoming more pervasive, while low pay and high costs of living force employees into working unhealthy hours, the games industry could be headed for either disaster or a period of rebirth.
GOG is finding itself in some hot water this week over the decision to fire a dozen of it’s employees. And while it’s not the obnoxious 800 layoffs from mega-publisher Activision-Blizzard, it still sucks for those that have been affected. According to GOG, the company has been working on optimizing their staffing levels and cutting
The developer behind Guild Wars 2 has announced a major restructuring is coming at the company. The developer confirmed it is laying off an undisclosed number of staff. In good news for fans of Guild Wars, the developer has vowed that these changes will not affect services in the MMO. IGN reached out to ArenaNet
The games industry is nothing if not cyclical, and on cycle that I am really tired of, and frankly angry about seeing, is this unsustainable trend that’s currently playing out once again, this time with Activision. What am I talking about? We’ve got another case of a major company firing employees and cutting costs in
There’s some new bad news for one of the larger companies in the gaming scene. As of reports earlier this week, Activision is apparently gearing up for a round of downsizing that will see hundreds of employees laid off from their jobs. While these reports have not been confirmed, it’s pretty much a guarantee that
The company behind H1Z1 has been around a long time, and it seems things aren’t going as swimmingly as one would originally believe. It turns out that the company has laid off a portion of its workforce these last few weeks. The company has been working exclusively on refocusing their work into the Battle Royal
Echoing the sad round of layoffs that marked the closure of adventure game developer Telltale Games, Trion Worlds has been bled for most of it’s staff following a sale to a third-party. German-based mega-publisher Gamigo recently acquired Trion Worlds, the makers of RIFT and ArcheAge, who had allegedly run into financial trouble over the last
Update: Citing a report from USGamer, Telltale has effectively canceled the upcoming Stranger Things project in addition to The Wolf Among Us 2. Kevin Bruner, the former co-founder of Telltale Games, has posted a personal statement on his blog titled “Telltale closure”, calling the future of the studio further into question. No official word has been given from
CCP isn’t the only major game dev to be affected by layoffs this season. Telltale Games has laid off a quarter of its workforce impacting 90 staff. Overall, nearly 25% of the staff of the developer have been let go. The studio made the decision in order to be “more competitive as a developer and
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