According to a new investigation by Vertical Slice, the working environment inside Electronic Arts is becoming increasingly difficult. Some employees at the publisher have reported growing dissatisfaction, mainly linked to recent layoffs, management decisions, and pressure to use artificial intelligence.
What's going on at Microsoft? Xbox has fired its first COO after only a couple months on the job, and there's already speculation as to why. But the bigger story is that Microsoft is offering buyout to 60% of their global…
After years of widening losses in hardware and software, fiscal Q1 2027 may be the period in which Xbox’s reset stops getting worse. The major question for the division, however, is whether the coming months can turn that stabilization into genuine growth.
"You're just numbers on a list." Last week, EA announced it's laying off 400 workers across multiple studios, cancelling projects and refocusing on its biggest money-makers. As part of that, EA closed down the iconic BioWare studio, letting go of most…
"For two years, employees have been living on the edge." There's deep unrest at French studio Don't Nod - creator of Life is Strange, Remember Me, Vampyr, Banishers: New Eden, and most recently Aphelion - as it scrambles to restructure itself and…
The mass effect of mass affects Last week, legendary RPG studio BioWare announced that it was shutting up shop as part of EA's latest round of layoffs. It was one of many studios hit by cuts from the company on…
Sucker Punch Productions, the studio that has developed Ghost of Tsushima and Ghost of Yōtei, has laid off 26 workers. Reports say this layoff came as the studio is preparing for the next game. Sucker Punch sent emails to employees and…
A job rarely feels uncertain until something makes it so. It could be an email arriving before sunrise, an appraisal meeting that takes an unexpected turn, or a message from HR asking an employee to consider leaving with a financial…
Microsoft is giving roughly 60,000 employees the choice to leave the company with financial support, creating one of its broadest voluntary workforce programs as the business reshapes itself around AI. The offer covers selected employees in the United States, Canada, India,…
Warhammer Survivors and Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun series developer Auroch Digital will lay of around 25 percent of its staff, the studio said in a message posted to social media. “Despite that creative success [of our titles], the same market conditions that have…
Job cuts and closed studios across the games industry, from Microsoft, Sony, EA and Ubisoft to Embracer, and the games cancelled with them.
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