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Square Enix Revolutionizes Its Approach to Games. Japanese Are Done With 'Quantity,' Now Aiming for 'Quality' and 'Multiplatform'
Square Enix revealed a new publishing strategy for the coming years. The Japanese company wants to release its big-budget games on multiple platforms.
video games
Zuzanna Domeradzka
May 14, 2024
Frontier Joins the Layoff Wave; Explains With Poor Sales of F1 Manager
The poor performance of the F1 Manager series is one of the main reasons for restructuring at British studio Frontier Developments, as a result of which an unspecified number of people are about to lose their jobs.
video games
Marcin Przała
October 17, 2023
EA Games is No More; Electronic Arts Undergoes Reorganization
Electronic Arts has announced that two different organizations will be created as a result of internal restructuring within the company: EA Sports and EA Entertainment.
video games
Kamil Kleszyk
June 21, 2023
Dead Island 2 In for an Earthquake; Big Changes Coming
Plaion intends to merge its Deep Silver, Prime Matter and Ravenscourt divisions and start publishing games under its own banner.
video games
Adrian Werner
May 7, 2023
EA Wants to Change; Ambitious Studios With More Autonomy
Electronic Arts has changed the way it manages many of its teams. Developers have gained more autonomy, including in terms of what projects they undertake.
video games
Adrian Werner
September 20, 2022
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion - That's Quantic Dream's New Direction
In 2018, the studio's management was sued for failing to uphold the rights of its employees. Today, it brags about its advocacy for women and those in the LGBTQIA+ community.
video games
Sonia Selerska
April 28, 2022
Homeworld Devs Switch to 4-day Work Week
The studio responsible for Homeworld 3, Blackbird Interactive, has followed in the footsteps of Eidos Montreal and switched to a 4-day workweek.
video games
Adrian Werner
February 11, 2022
4-day Work Week Without a Pay Cut is Eidos Montreal's New Model
Eidos Montreal and Eidos-Sherbrooke studios are changing their work model. From now on, developers will only work four days a week.
video games
Adrian Werner
October 8, 2021
Cyberpunk 2077 was a Valuable Lesson; Adam Kicinski on Work Organization at CD Projekt
In an interview with Bloomberg agency, the CD Projekt CEO Adam Kicinski announced significant changes in the company. Their reason is mainly the failure, which turned out to be Cyberpunk 2077 on the day of its launch.
video games
Miriam Moszczynska
September 30, 2021
Konami Will Remain in Gamedev, Clarifying a Confusing Announcement
Konami's brief announcement about restructuring sparked a storm on the Internet. The Japanese company will continue to develop video games, and info of studios getting shut down was quickly denied.
video games
Paul Musiolik
January 26, 2021
Ubisoft Will do its Best to Deliver More Unique Games in the Future
Ubisoft plans to restructure and expand the team responsible for content and art direction of its games. The move is aimed at diversification of studio's portfolio and is a response to the company's poor commercial results from last year.
video games
Konrad Serafinski
January 18, 2020
Starbreeze Gets Back on its Feet; PayDay's Future Looks Better
Starbreeze, developer of the PayDay series, has confirmed that it got back on its feet being close to bankruptcy at the end of last year. The future of the present and future game from the PayDay franchise is therefore secured, at least for the time being.
video games
Michael Kulakowski
December 6, 2019
Layoffs in Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
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.
other
October 10, 2019
Intel Lays Off Common Employees, Hires a Pro From Nvidia
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.
hardware & software
April 1, 2019
Electronic Arts Lays Off 350 Employees
Electronic Arts announced that 350 workers will be laid off - the redundancies will mainly affect the publishing and marketing departments.
video games
March 27, 2019
Blizzard Lays Off 209 Employees
According to EDD, 25% of the 800 people recently laid off by Activision Blizzard were Blizzard Entertainment employees.
video games
March 9, 2019
Layoffs at GOG.com
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.
video games
Adrian Werner
February 26, 2019
Activision Plans Massive Layoffs?
More alarming news concerning Activision. Bloomberg news agency reports that next week the company is to cut as much as hundreds of jobs.
video games
Konrad Serafinski
February 9, 2019
Warface Devs Set Up a New Studio
The Crytek branch responsible for the shooter Warface has just become independent. A group of developers has founded a new studio, where they will continue their work.
video games
Adrian Werner
February 7, 2019
IO Interactive sets up new branch in Sweden
The developer of the Hitman franchise has decided to expand their manpower by creating a new team.
video games
Jacob Blazewicz
January 17, 2019