More than 10,000 developers lost their jobs in 2023, and this doesn’t appear to be improving in 2024, as Riot and Microsoft show. The Daily is gone.
5,600 workers in the video game industry will have lost their jobs in 2024 and Microsoft just laid off 1,900 employees. According to the information, the company has cut 8% of its gaming division, which employs around 22,000 people. Phil Spencer, head of Xbox, spoke of a difficult decision to promote the “growth” of the company and assured those affected of financial support. At the same time, several important departures and the cancellation of Blizzard’s big survival game. The American giant has been a regular at the exercise since laying off employees a year ago. Worrying when we know that Riot fired 530 people a few days earlier. The daily is over.
