2024 continues to be an awful year for employees of the game industry, as another three studios have reportedly laid off employees this week. People Can Fly, the… Continue reading
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Some more industry news has broken this week, and this time it relates to Microsoft’s Xbox division, which last year finalised its acquisition of Activision Blizzard and has… Continue reading
Blizzard’s canceled survival game had been in development for over 6 years, was highly praised by employees
Blizzard’s unnamed survival game had already been in development for over four years when it was announced in early 2022. Its team doubled in size that year with… Continue reading
Image: The Pokémon Company Four employees have reportedly been dismissed from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam following The Pokémon X Van Gogh exhibition. In a report from… Continue reading
This is why we can’t have nice things! One of the Pokemon franchise’s greatest strengths is its ability to place itself within all sorts of media and other… Continue reading
Image: via Steam / Pocketpair The new “open-world survival and crafting game” Palworld has become insanely popular overnight, with sales surpassing the seven million mark and now supposedly… Continue reading
Four employees of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam were suspended due to misconduct during its Pokémon exhibition last year. Though the museum did not confirm… Continue reading
People Can Fly, the developer behind the likes of Outriders and Bulletstorm, has reportedly laid off “over 30 people” working on a currently unannounced game – codenamed… Continue reading
While news of layoffs continues to stifle the industry, Riot’s generous benefits package warrants mention. Riot Games has announced plans to lay off 530 of their employees, or… Continue reading
Riot lays off 530 employees, will close Riot Forge: ‘We’re not doing this to appease shareholders or to hit some quarterly earnings number,’ says CEO
Riot Games has announced that it’s “refocusing on fewer, high-impact projects” to move “toward a more sustainable future,” and that means layoffs: Roughly 530 employees, representing 11% of… Continue reading