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Layoffs Hit Star Wars Developers
10:30PM Luke Plunkett | Last week, Krome Studios — developers of several Star Wars & Spyro titles — laid off a number of employees as tough times hit the veteran Australian development house. More »
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Rumour: RIP Pandemic Studios, 1998-2009
11:30PM Luke Plunkett | Pandemic Studios – the developers behind Star Wars: Battlefront and Mercenaries – will today be closed down by owners Electronic Arts, according to several sources close to the situation. More »
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1:00PM David Wildgoose | Those rumours of layoffs at Australia’s largest development house are true. Krome Studios’ CEO Robert Walsh confirmed today that jobs have been cut at its Brisbane, Adelaide and Melbourne offices. More »
Krome Boss Confirms Job Cuts
1:00PM David Wildgoose | Those rumours of layoffs at Australia’s largest development house are true. Krome Studios’ CEO Robert Walsh confirmed today that jobs have been cut at its Brisbane, Adelaide and Melbourne offices. More »
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4:30PM David Wildgoose | According to a report on Australian Gamer this afternoon, Krome Studios today laid off between 20 and 30 employees at its Brisbane studio. More »
Rumour: Layoffs Hit Krome Studios
4:30PM David Wildgoose | According to a report on Australian Gamer this afternoon, Krome Studios today laid off between 20 and 30 employees at its Brisbane studio. More »
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EA Will Hire Back Some Positions It Cut
1:00PM Owen Good | Also at today’s Digital Entertainment Conference in New York, Electronic Arts’ chief financial officer, Eric Brown, said the company will be hiring back some of those positions it axed earlier this week. But it sounds like just the cheaper ones. More »
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EA Cutting 1500 Jobs To Reduce Costs
8:30AM Mike Fahey | Lending credence to the rumours of massive layoffs, EA details a “cost reduction plan” in its second-quarter financial results press release that will result in the termination of 1500 employees. More »
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Rumour: EA Guts Workforce After Big Playfish Buyout
6:30AM Michael McWhertor | Electronic Arts has taken the axe to hundreds of employees at locations in Burnaby, Orlando and San Francisco today, according to chatter from former EA employees, issuing layoffs the same day it confirms a buyout of social-gaming publisher Playfish. More »
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Square Enix Fire Some People
3:20PM Brian Ashcraft | It’s already been announced that the severance payouts to Taito employees has drained money from parent company Square Enix. Those were the only cuts Square Enix has made post Eidos-buyout. More »
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Romero’s Slipgate Ironworks Hammered Down, MMO Project Still On
9:20AM Michael McWhertor | Slipgate Ironworks, the game development company founded by ex-id Software, ex-Ion Storm designer John Romero, has been pared down by parent company Gazillion, Kotaku has learned, with the start up’s unnamed MMO still in development with a “smaller core team”. More »
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