layoffs / employments Latest news (5)

Michael Kulakowski, 06 October 2020, 23:46

The French branch of Blizzard, which is mainly responsible for marketing and localization of the studio's games in Europe, was closed down by Activision. This is a result of the increasing control that the company has over its in-house developer, which enjoyed great autonomy only a few years ago.

Jacob Blazewicz, 26 September 2020, 20:09

The newspaper Libération has published an article that reveals the details of Michel Ancel's departure from Ubisoft. It was supposed to result from an investigation into the alleged toxic behavior of the creator of Beyond Good & Evil 2. In response, Ubisoft's former producer accused the newspaper of spreading false news.

Paul Musiolik, 18 September 2020, 19:39

Michel Ancel, creator of Rayman and Beyond Good & Evil, announced today that he is retiring. We don't have to worry about his projects, as they are in good hands.

Mikolaj Laszkiewicz, 09 September 2020, 15:16

One of Facebook's software engineers decided to give up his job in the company because, in his opinion, the company makes money on hatred and its only goal is profit.

Jacob Blazewicz, 19 August 2020, 21:22

Brian Mitsoda, the lead writer of Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines, is no longer working on the sequel. Hardsuit Labs announced that he and Ka'ai Cluney were laid off, which was supposed have been to be a huge surprise for Mitsoda.

Milosz Szubert, 14 August 2020, 21:12

Jeffrey „Lazlow” Jones is no longer a member of Rockstar. He is mainly known for his work on GTA games. He produced them, wrote scripts for radio stations and played the role of their presenters.

Agnes Adamus, 14 August 2020, 20:00

Former creative director of AC: Valhalla, Ashraf Ismail, was officially fired by Ubisoft. The French company does not disclose the exact reasons for his dismissal and explains that the decision is the result of an internal investigation. This may be a consequence of Ismail having an affair.

Adrian Werner, 04 August 2020, 19:55

The Ubisoft scandal continues. Tommy Francois became another veteran of the company who was fired due to inappropriate behaviour towards the women employed by the publisher.

Darius Matusiak, 24 June 2020, 22:44

The creative director of Assassin's Creed: Valhalla has stepped down after his love affair came to light.

Jacob Blazewicz, 23 June 2020, 12:32

Chris Avellone is no longer working on Dying Light 2 and Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2, all because of sexual harassment charges pressed against the iconic screewriter.

Damian Gacek, 28 April 2020, 12:26

Rumor has it that the Bratislava studio, one of the two responsible for developing DayZ, has been closed down. If the reports turn out to be true, the game may no longer receive new content.

Jacob Blazewicz, 12 March 2020, 13:32

Michael Chu has announced his departure from Blizzard Entertainment. The main screenwriter of the Overwatch series leaves the company after almost 20 years of work, but still wants to create stories for video games.

Bart Swiatek, 26 February 2020, 16:36

Bob Iger, who has been the CEO of Disney for the last fifteen years, has decided to resign from his post with immediate effect. His place will be taken by Bob Chapek, the former head of the theme parks, experience and product department.

Konrad Serafinski, 08 February 2020, 21:31

Rockstar Games does not plan any more departures. This is what Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Take-Two Interactive, said when asked about this eventuality after Dan Houser left the studio. By the way, he stresses that the company has never been stronger.

Frozen, 08 February 2020, 21:08

Disturbing news comes from OtherSide Entertainment, the studio that makes up the third installment of the iconic System Shock series. The future of the series awaited by fans was questioned after the company layoff a significant number of employees at the end of last year.

Adrian Werner, 05 February 2020, 12:10

Sony announced that it will soon dissolve the Manchester Studio devteam, which was established in 2015 to create VR games.

Christian Pieniazek, 23 January 2020, 22:00

According to reliable sources, CDP, which was supposed to be the Polish distributor of Cyberpunk 2077, has just laid off a lot of staff. The company will probably soon be completely extinguished. At present, it is not known which company could take over the rights to distribute the title in Poland.

Paul Wozniak, 30 November 2019, 17:50

Google's newly-created video gamedev team just employed some people who have worked on the Assassin's Creed series. They will be responsible for creating exclusive and original titles for the Google Stadia streaming platform.

Krzysztof Kaluzinski, 13 November 2019, 22:20

Today, the American studio Human Head closed its operations after 22 years of existence on the gaming market. However, all the employees quickly found employment in the newly formed Roundhouse Studios team opened by Bethesda.

Frozen, 10 October 2019, 11:22

Dozens of employees in the European branch of SIE were laid off on the day of the official announcement of PlayStation 5. The decision for the restructuring is explained by the need to unify individual branches of the company.

Krzysztof Kaluzinski, 01 October 2019, 14:38

Shawn Layden unexpectedly parted with Sony. The name of the new head of Worldwide Studios, which brings together development studios creating games for PlayStation 4 and 5, has not yet been announced.

Agnes Adamus, 24 August 2019, 19:29

In May, Pathologic 2 - a remake of the action-adventure game released in 2005 - hit the stores. It turns out that the game has sold poorly. In an interview for DTF, Ice-Pick Lodge admitted that a number of its employees have been laid off and plans for further development of the series had been postponed indefinitely.

Jacob Blazewicz, 18 August 2019, 17:08

Another dev has left BioWare. Fernando Melo, the lead producer of the upcoming Dragon Age, has just said goodbye to the studio.

Jacob Blazewicz, 16 August 2019, 14:27

Ben Irving has left BioWare. The creator was known mainly as the lead producer of the online shooter Anthem.

Michael Kulakowski, 13 August 2019, 22:44

Tim Willits, an industry veteran working for id Software since 1995, where he co-created Doom and Quake as a studio director and level designer, joins Saber Interactive's development team responsible for The Witcher 3 port to Nintendo Switch. At the new company, Willits will take up the position of creative director.

Paul Wozniak, 20 July 2019, 14:10

The co-founder of Blizzard leaves the company after 28 years of work. In his official statement, he thanks others for the opportunity to fulfill his dream of creating video games.

Julia Dragovic, 05 July 2019, 15:38

After a considerable purge of staff, Blizzard started recruiting Community Managers for Hearthstone. It would not be surprising if it were not for the fact that six months ago, for financial reasons, the company fired all of them. Former employees are not particularly satisfied with this fact, to put it mildly. Some of them are still unemployed.

Jacob Blazewicz, 26 June 2019, 23:45

PUBG Corp. has announced the employment of Glen Schofield as head of the new studio. The creator of Dead Space and the Call of Duty series will lead the Striking Distance team in creating story-oriented productions set in the Playerunknown's Battlegrounds universe.

Paul Wozniak, 20 June 2019, 18:08

The former CEO of Sony, who has been the chairman of the supervisory board since last year, Kazuo (Kaz) Hirai, retired on June 18. Hirai has worked for 35 years in the company and has a lot of successes to his credit.

Adrian Werner, 18 June 2019, 15:25

Things are bad in Amazon Game Studios. Several dozen employees were laid off and unannounced projects were cancelled. One of the main reasons for these problems is the Lumberyard engine.

Jacob Blazewicz, 02 June 2019, 23:48

More high-profile employees can leave the ranks of Blizzard Entertainment. According to Dexerto there will be several resignations from the Blizzard E-sports team in the next two weeks. Reason - low morale due to the decisions made by the management.

Bart Swiatek, 05 April 2019, 16:28

In a recent podcast organized by the editorial staff of GameStar, one of the CD Projekt RED developers admitted that it is not rare for the company to hire talented modders.

ElMundo, 01 April 2019, 14:59

One of the biggest producers of hardware components – Intel – plans to lay off several hundred people from two of its offices. What's more, Tom Petersen, one of Nvidia's top workers is going to join the company.

Bart Swiatek, 28 March 2019, 15:20

Former CEO of Sony, currently the company's chairman – Kazuo (Kaz) Hirai – will retire on June 18. Hirai has spent 35 years in the company and is responsible for many of its successes.

ElMundo, 27 March 2019, 00:19

Electronic Arts announced that 350 workers will be laid off - the redundancies will mainly affect the publishing and marketing departments.

ElMundo, 13 March 2019, 17:29

Google is serious about entering the video game market – the company announced that it will present "the future of gaming" during the upcoming Game Developers Conference 2019.

Frozen, 09 March 2019, 23:26

According to EDD, 25% of the 800 people recently laid off by Activision Blizzard were Blizzard Entertainment employees.

Adrian Werner, 09 March 2019, 20:44

Artifact's situation is getting progressively worse. As it turns out, the title has lost its two lead gameplay designers, Richard Garfield and Skaff Elias.

Bart Swiatek, 08 March 2019, 16:19

Valve has laid off 13 full-time employees last month. Some third-party contracts were also cancelled. The reason for the layoffs remains unknown.

Adrian Werner, 26 February 2019, 10:05

GOG.com has fired a significant number of employees. The reason for the layoffs is allegedly financial difficulties and the mounting market pressure to reduce the revenues of digital distribution stores.

Bart Swiatek, 22 February 2019, 14:19

On April 15, Reggie Fils-Aime will resign as the CEO of Nintendo of America. His duties will be taken over by Doug Bowser, currently the company's Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing.

Konrad Serafinski, 09 February 2019, 19:27

More alarming news concerning Activision. Bloomberg news agency reports that next week the company is to cut as much as hundreds of jobs.

Milosz Szubert, 23 January 2019, 13:26

Sebastian Stepien, co-writer and story designer for the Witcher series and the upcoming Cyberpunk 2077, left CD Projekt RED. His new employer is Blizzard, where the developer took over as Creative Director.

Jacob Blazewicz, 15 January 2019, 00:10

Activision paid the equivalent of $15 million to Dennis Durkin in exchange for signing an agreement to take up the position of Chief Financial Officer.

Milosz Szubert, 11 January 2019, 19:13

A new patch has been released for Fallout 76, the 1.1.2 update is available in Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Final Fantasy X/X2 HD and Final Fantasy XII The Zodiac Age have been announced on Nintendo Switch and Xbox One. Mike Morhaime quits Blizz for good.

Bart Swiatek, 03 January 2019, 18:51

Activision Blizzard announced in a statement issued to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that it will dismiss its financial director, Spencer Neumann. The dismissal is not related to the company's financial performance.

Milosz Szubert, 11 December 2018, 14:06

Glen Schofield, one of the co-founders of Sledgehammer Games, announced that he will leave Activision at the end of the year to „try something new.”.

luckie, 13 October 2017, 13:12

Mike Laidlaw, senior creative director for Dragon Age: Inquisition, has announced that he is leaving BioWare after 14 years.

luckie, 04 October 2017, 21:03

Is Cyberpunk 2077 in trouble? Although that conclusion may be a bit too hasty, it is noteworthy that several key developers left CD Projekt RED last month.

luckie, 25 September 2017, 11:52

The developer of Dear Esther and Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture decided to lay off most of its team. The studio, which is now down to three people, is taking a creative break.