video game layoff stories

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.

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.