A small studio shared that after 15 months after the closure, 40% of their ex-members are insecure about their positions and 25% are completely unemployed (including several people, who found new places that also closed).

The 2025 is still not even close to a healthy industry. Too many talented people are staying low or switching to other industries.

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And according to Bloomberg, Intel is planning to fire 21 thousand people next week, mostly management staff to link departments and teams closer to each other.

They already fired 19 thousand about a year ago. And by the end of 2024 they've had 108 000 workers left.

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Respawn is laying off staff: people from Apex and Jedi teams are also affected, two early stage projects are cancelled.

Goodbye, Titanfall 3?

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I'm not surprised 😑

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#Finance@GameDEV
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I have some doubts, folks...

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What is going on with EA?

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People Can't Fly: unfortunately PCF lost two projects and will have to fire some of its team members.

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RuneScape? Rune-escape!

Jagex reported profit growth for the seventh year in a row at the end of 2022, four years after shutting down RuneScape Classic, ending a 17-year-old run. The studio was then acquired by private equity firms CVC Capital and Haveli Investments in February 2024. A month later, CEO Phil Mansell departed the studio after eight years. CVC Capital advisor and Jagex board member Jon Bellami then took helm of the studio.

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Days Gone and so are 40 employees: when the multiplayer version was scrapped, PlayStation cut the funding for Bend Studio.

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