This year has not been good for the video game industry. Despite the large number of games released, including Switch games, just as many employees were laid off. Many studios are also closed. So it’s not surprising that fans are concerned that Nintendo could be heading down a similar path. So far, that hasn’t really ...
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Destiny 2 developer Bungie has announced plans to lay off 220 employees, integrating the remaining 155 positions into Sony Interactive Entertainment and moving work on one of its “incubation projects” to the newly formed PlayStation Studio. Bungie CEO Pete Parsons laid out the shift in a new blog post, calling it “the hardest change our ...
Keiichiro Toyama, creator of Silent Hill and director of the upcoming Slitterhead, says he wouldn’t be “unsatisfied” even if it was the last game he made. It’s been a while since Toyama released a new game, and he was the director behind the original Silent Hill, as well as the Siren and Gravity Rush series. ...
Take-Two Interactoive, the company behind “GTA” developer Rockstar Games, which recently acquired “Borderlands” developer Gearbox Software for $460 million, announced plans to lay off more than 500 employees and cancel some projects in development . As we sadly expected, this is part of the company’s cost-cutting plan. The plans were disclosed via an SEC filing ...
According to reports, SEGA plans to lay off 240 people at many of its studios. Studios such as “Total War” developer Creative Assembly, SEGA Europe and “Sonic Dream Team” developer Hardlight will be affected by the layoffs. At the same time, the publisher announced the sale of Company of Heroes developer Relic, which now plans ...
We believed that 2023 had been the worst year for video games, but 2024 is being even worse. To the massive layoffs of almost 2000 people at Microsoft, over 500 at Riot Games, SEGA and other companies are now joined by another one. Sony Interactive Entertainment announced layoffs of around 900 employees, affecting several PlayStation ...
Supermassive Games, the developer of horror games Until Dawn and The Quarry, is reportedly planning to lay off 90 employees, with 150 employees being told they are at risk of redundancy. The British studio, which initially worked on DLC for LittleBigPlanet and has since worked with publishers such as Sony and Take-Two Interactive, will make ...
news business Twitch and Unity lay off workers as Rebels strengthens Wolves… Business News of the Week Published on January 14, 2024 at 5:00 p.m Share: The year is starting slowly and yet the business news has not taken a break and remains current for 2023. The famous “Licenciathon” continues, this time from Unity and ...
Two years ago, Google Assistant was one of the company’s most interesting and potentially useful projects; Today, serious doubts remain about its ability to survive this year 2024. The fault for this change in fortune: Generative Artificial Intelligence, whose popularity exploded last year to the surprise of Google itself . The huge success of ChatGPT ...
