layoffs
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Gigantic Developers Announce ‘Significant, Temporary’ Layoffs
Gigantic has been looking gorgeous, but that hasn’t translated into financial security for its developer Motiga. The company announced this morning a temporary round of redundancies, going as far to label them as “significant”.
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The Pizza Party Where Everyone Got Fired
Yesterday, the game development studio Daybreak went through massive layoffs, culling a large number of jobs in order to stay “profitable./” That’s just business as usual in the video game industry, where it seems like there’s a new round of layoffs every single week.
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‘I Learned My Company Was Getting Shut Down Over Twitter’
Here are five more stories of people involved in the painful job cuts that happen in the games business all the time. Four from people who were fired. One from someone who did the firing. We urge you to read their accounts.
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Disney Lays Off 700 Employees
Disney has laid off 700 employees from its gaming division today, as the New York Times reports. That’s 26 per cent of its staff, and it’s all in mobile, social and web-based gaming.