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Daybreak confirms "less than 15" layoffs
MMO specialist denies report of larger cuts, attributes decision to "overall assessment and recalibration of our business"
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Scopely layoffs hit Kingdom Maker team
Company confirms about 15 positions at risk after ending publishing partnership with Global Worldwide
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Blackbird Interactive cuts staff again
Homeworld 3 studio has second round of layoffs in six months
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Ziggurat no slave to tradition
Why the publisher is returning to the universe of the 1999 3D shooter Slave Zero with the 2D hack-and-slash Slave Zero X
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Study finds 17% of active gamers are LGBTQ
GLAAD cites Nielsen research for figure, questions why fewer than 2% of games have LGBTQ characters or storylines
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Are unions actually growing? | This Week in Business
The formation of the IGN Creators Guild is the latest evidence of a trend that might have a stronger basis in perception than reality
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Take-Two cutting costs again as Q3 sales dip 3%
Zelnick says this year's cost-cutting will be "more robust" than last year's; publisher beats guidance despite softness in NBA 2K24 sales
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Stoke Games raises $5.5m for "shooter-adjacent" PvP game
Remote studio from ex-League of Legends and Multiversus developers exploring a "slower-tempo" game with strategic focus
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Hidden Path lays off 44
Developer shelves RPG it had been working on after funding falls through
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Roblox continues to grow revenues, deepen losses
UGC platform expects more of the same in 2024, losing as much as $1.4 billion on revenues as high as $3.4 billion
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IGN workers unionizing
IGN Creators Guild announces 87% of eligible editorial and creative employees at games media outlet have already signed union cards
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Layoffs at Crop Circle Games
More than a dozen devs who had been working at narrative sandbox game developer update social media profiles in search of work after unexpected cuts
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Building a career on a dare | Black Voices Progress Report
League of Legends and Final Fantasy 7 Remake voice actress Danielle McRae discusses her path into and through the games industry
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The future's so bright, I gotta wear Apple's $3,500 shades | This Week in Business
Let's talk about reasons for optimism despite grim industry news and Apple's Vision Pro headset. Despite the headline, the two subjects are not related
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Roughly half of Devolver's Artificer studio laid off
Polish studio behind Showgunners said to have cut about 25 people, with up to a dozen more expected to go once the team's current game is finished
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Mountaintop raises another $30 million
Start-up studio brings influencer investors on board as it gets closer to announcing its debut tactical shooter
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GameSpot lays off portion of staff
Job cuts at Fandom gaming outlet come almost exactly a year after last round of layoffs
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SF6 and RE4 continue to drive Capcom results
Revenues are up 33% through the first nine months of the company's fiscal year
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EA Sports FC 24 beats expectations, leads EA to Q3 growth
Football series grew 7% for the quarter despite rebrand as EA sees profits jump 42%
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Guessing Nintendo's next move | 10 Years Ago This Month
With the Wii U struggling and the company signaling changes, January of 2014 saw lots of people take (mostly wrong) guesses at what Nintendo would do next
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Riot and Microsoft layoffs the same, but different | This Week in Business
The League of Legends maker's accountability falls on people not at fault, while Microsoft celebrates the Activision Blizzard acquisition by disposing of devs
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Apple clears the way for Game Pass streaming on iOS
A day after UK CMA resumes investigation of cloud gaming restrictions, Apple says it will allow game streaming apps
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An arms race for games industry tax breaks
Nordicity's Kristian Roberts weighs in on the worldwide state of tax credits, where they're effective, and where they aren't
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Mighty Kingdom fends off ex-CEO's takeover attempt
Fewer than 10% of Conan Chop Chop studio shareholders voted for former boss' resolution to replace board
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Getting used to it | This Week in Business
GAME is ending its trade-in program, once denounced as a scourge of the industry. So why aren't we seeing more celebrating?