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Singularity 6 laying off 36 staff
The news comes a month after a third of the Palia studio was let go
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Phoenix Labs hit by another round of layoffs
Studio has entered a period of restructuring, over 140 workers affected according to former employee
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Report: Square Enix to lay off workers in European and American divisions
Company announced plans to "rebuild its overseas business divisions" in financial earnings
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Mighty Kingdom lays off 28% of staff
Australian studio shares details for affected staff online in hopes of helping them find new roles
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Microsoft's mystifying mismanagement | This Week in Business
If you're a developer working for Xbox, what can you do to secure your job?
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Xbox president: "Our commitment [is] to make sure that the business is healthy for the long term"
Regarding Tango Gameworks shuttering, Sarah Bond said, "We look at a whole variety of factors when we're faced with sort of making decisions"
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Around 30 people laid off in CI Games' final round of job cuts
Company says Lords of the Fallen dev Hexworks is unaffected
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Lightforge Games lays off "majority" of workforce
Development on its collaborative online RPG has been paused, a "skeleton team" to remain in place
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Meet Amir Satvat, the man leading efforts to find laid-off developers new jobs
We find out more about Satvat's initiatives to support those affected by widespread job cuts, already helping more than 1,800 people find work
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Report - ZeniMax on studio closures: "I think we were about to topple over"
Executive reportedly attributed shutdowns to lack of support and understaffing
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Xbox shutting down four Bethesda studios
Arkane Austin, Tango Gameworks, Alpha Dog, and Roundhouse on the chopping block
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Paladin Studios shuts down after nearly 19 years
The gamer maker attributed its decision to a failure of not landing enough work
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Take-Two reportedly shuts down Roll7 and Intercept Games, Private Division suffers layoffs
Publisher reiterates it is "not providing additional details" on ongoing, previously announced job cuts
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Belka Games reduces staffers by 20%
CEO says that the firm will focus on "new hits and prepare for the next stage of growth"
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Take-Two reportedly closing its Seattle office
WARN notice indicates 70 staff will be laid off, likely as part of previously announced 580 layoffs
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Keoken Interactive lays off team after failing to find funding at GDC
UPDATE: Koen Deetman confirms to GamesIndustry.biz that 13 were affected, only the two co-founders remain
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Gloomhaven studio Flaming Fowl lays off over 20 staff
Developer also puts newly announced project Ironmarked on hold due to lack of funding
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OPM's Kim Parker-Adcock: If you survive this industry downsizing, you can survive anything
The agency's founder reflects on the collapse of One Player Mission, and her hopes about the reformation of recruitment
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Xalavier Nelson Jr. on making money and happy players "without exploding in the process"
The Strange Scaffold CEO discusses sustainability in the games industry and learning in real-time
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Take-Two laying off 5% of staff
In addition to approximately 580 jobs cut, publisher's latest cost reduction program also involves cancelling projects, streamlining organizational structure
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Kwalee lays off unknown number of staff as it "reshapes business"
Mobile publisher claims less than 40 staff affected, but still plans to grow headcount to over 400
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Latoya Peterson: "Studios are at the mercy of this house of cards that is the funding system that we've built"
At GDC 2024, the Glow Up Games co-founder explained how funding is a structural issue impacting the labour market
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Possibility Space shuts down
Prytania Media studio's staff laid off weeks after sibling studio Crop Circle officially shut down
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Taking layoffs too lightly | This Week in Business
Industry leadership likes to pay lip service to how seriously it takes layoffs, but their actions too often suggest otherwise
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IGDA calls for action on layoffs
Developer group gives studio leaders six points to follow for a more sustainable industry that stops driving away talent