The video game industry is experiencing one of its worst times in terms of job cuts. The day in the video game industry begins with a new wave of massive layoffsas companies try to explain why it is necessary to lay off a certain percentage of their employees to survive in an ever-changing gaming industry ...
Electronic Arts (EA) planea fire 5% of your staff, which represents approximately 670 employees. The decision stems from the company’s strategy to move away from developing future licensed intellectual properties that they believe will not be successful in the ever-changing industry. This includes the cancellation of at least one licensed title, and the teams involved ...
Microsoft almost 2,000 jobs cut This affects the entire gaming department on January 25th and impacts employees at Activision Blizzard, ZeniMax and Xbox. And now we’ve learned that an in-development survival game from Blizzard codenamed “Odyssey” has been canceled and most of the team working on the game has been laid off. The open-world racing ...
Activision Blizzard has reportedly canceled its in-development survival game and said goodbye to president Mike Ybarra and chief design officer Allen Adham. Meanwhile, Microsoft – the tech giant acquired Activision Blizzard in October 2023 – announced that it would lay off 1,900 employees in its gaming division. The cancellation of the survival game Blizzard was ...
The industry news is definitely bleak and the situation is not going to improve. Microsoft, in turn, announces a wave of layoffs and the cancellation of a game. The video game industry is experiencing real carnage. Since last year, notices of dismissal have been increasing, almost all of which are shockingly violent. Riot Games announced ...
The multiplayer game The Last of Us was in development at Naughty Dog no longer exists, with the studio revealing that it had been canceled due to the impact supporting it as a live service would have had on ND’s single-player plans. To be fair, it’s nice to see a company within the gaming industry ...
In June 2022, Naughty Dog announced the ‘remake’ The Last of Us Part I for PS5 and PC. In turn, they revealed the development of a multiplayer title for the current generation based on the popular franchise. Internally known as The Last of Us Online and with a view to launching in 2023, in May ...
And yes, that was something we could assume Blizzard wasn’t going to live up to the expectations set when Overwatch 2 launched. One of the main premises of the co-op multiplayer sequel was that in this second installment, it would have a sort of fashion campaign. Well, that won’t happen. In live stream on the ...
The iPhone 14 still has “normal” physical buttons. It looks like this won’t change with the iPhone 15 after all. (Image: Apple) Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has announced that the next high-end iPhone models iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max will not have buttons with pressure sensors, contrary to his earlier expectations. According ...
Image: Atlus The 3DS eShop is set to shut down this month, and in response, publisher and developer Atlus (known for series like Persona and Shin Megami Tensei) planned to hold one “final” sale on the platform in Japan. Instead of going live today, the company announced yesterday that it will no longer be happening. ...
