… In a statement about the second round of layoffs, BARB CEO Mark Gerhard wrote that "the prolonged impact of the difficult launch means that we still had to take the brutal and heartbreaking step of reducing the size of the studio once again to ensure the long-term future of the company and the proj… …
… At least three former workers at the studio took to LinkedIn on Friday to post about their departures, with one explicitly mentioning that they'd been cut as part of a round of layoffs. …
Battlefield 6 was "the biggest launch in franchise history", EA told us back in October – indeed, it was the best-selling game in the US in 2025 ... so now it's time to lay off an unspecified number of those who made it, with cuts reportedly taking place across Criterion, Dice, Ripple Effect, and M… …
… As a result, the entire team are available for work as of today." Emery also shared links to the numerous team members affected by the layoffs and what essentially sounds like an effective closure of the studio , so the post is worth looking at to offer any kind of support. …
… As a result, Sony are planning a “significant number of layoffs”, though Bloomberg doesn't report how many people that may be. After acquiring Bungie for $3.6 billion in 2022, it has been shocking to see how fast and hard the cuts at the studio have come. …
… More layoffs today: PlayStation is closing Dark Outlaw Games, a studio formed last year by former Call of Duty lead Jason Blundell his previous PlayStation studio, Deviation, was shut down in 2024 . …
The games industry will never "get back to normal", lament Tony Hawk devs Iron Galaxy, as they make another round of layoffs
… Meanwhile, one of the studios Epic own - Horizon Chase developers Aquiris - have announced plans to pull downloads for the first two games in their arcade racing series offline later this year. …
… The action's being taken against the ongoing layoffs which continue to ravage the game-making space, with the union calling on striking workers to "demand major organisational changes within their companies". …
It seems that every week we're reporting on news of another wave of layoffs at a big game studio. …
