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Electronic Arts has implemented a round of layoffs at F1 developer Codemasters.

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Saber Interactive subsidiary New World Interactive has experienced layoffs, affected by Embracer's ongoing restructuring program.

Fae Farm is getting its first DLC, Coasts of Croakia, on December 14th. The colorful new update will add a new zone to explore, new quests, and more to the cozy farm sim with a magical touch.

Phoenix Labs this week had its second round of layoffs this year, as reported by a number of now-former employees on LinkedIn.

Sega has a new financial report that, like so many companies in the industry, discusses layoffs and project cancellations. Creative Assembly, as noted in the report, saw in-development FPS Hyenas canceled in large part over concerns that the team wasn’t up to running a live service FPS long-term. 

Unity has reportedly shed more jobs, as the company has laid off 265 workers today as part of a «company reset.» The move also terminates the partnership that Unity had been in with Weta FX, though crucially, Unity retains its ownership of the Weta Digital tools it purchased back in 2021.

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Embracer Group’s restructuring efforts have hit another of the company’s studios. This time, around 50 employees have been let go from Fishlabs, a studio known for Galaxy on Fire and bringing Valheim to Xbox.

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Embracer Group released its latest financial report, which included updates on how their restructuring is going so far. With debt down to about $1.4 billion, there’s still more to go, even after laying off a confirmed 904 people so far.

It’s anotherdifficult week in the games industry, as both Humble Games, and 505 Games’ parent company, Digital Bros, are confirming layoffs. At Digital Bros,  the cuts are deep, affecting 30% of its workforce, and a refocus on fewer projects under successful IP…

Humble Games has laid off an unknown number of employees due to restructuring efforts.

Amazon Games has confirmed another round of layoffs, this time affecting around 180 people. This is the second time this year that the games division has had some layoffs, amid many industry layoffs and cuts on the whole.

Amazon Games has laid off 180 staffers of its games workforce.

Unity have said that they expect to lay off staff in the coming months, following the engine maker’s catastrophic rollout of their new pricing plan earlier this year and as they turn towards a more “focused” offering, including the likes of AI, for growth.

Warframe developer Digital Extremes has laid off an unknown number of staff and has closed its publishing division.

According to a new report by Polygon, Warframe developer Digital Extremes has laid off a number of workers associated with its external projects and publishing teams as it starts the process of divesting itself from Airship Syndicate, the developer of Wayfinder. 

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Resurrected TimeSplitters developers Free Radical Design could be the next Embracer-owned studio to be shuttered, according to recent reports. The rumoured closure comes just two years after the veteran British label were resurrected by their original founders to work on a new TimeSplitters game.

Looks like Ubisoft is the latest company to lay off a number of employees. The studio confirmed the decision to lay off employees, but added that none are on production teams.

Esports and gaming organisation 100 Thieves has announced another round of layoffs.

Nascar Rivals developer Motorsport Games has cut around 38 jobs in a recent round of layoffs, mostly affecting roles in the UK and Australia.

After weeks of speculating why members of the Cryptic Studios team would all start to open their LinkedIn accounts to new work at the same time, reports have now come out that the MMORPG studio is experiencing layoffs.

Cryptic Studios appears to be the latest Embracer-owned company to be impacted by layoffs.

After the news that Bungie laid off staffers hit earlier this week, new information has come out explaining exactly why this happened and the extent of the layoffs. This is amid reports that the sales targets at Bungie were 45% below expectations for the year.

Bungie has laid off some of its staff, according to a report by Bloomberg, as well as multiple now former Bungie developers on Twitter this morning. Additionally, the Sony-owned studio has pushed back the release of its next Destiny 2 expansion and the target window for its upcoming game, Marathon.

 Embracer Group layoffs have hit animation studio Digic Pictures, which the company acquired in 2021. 

Frontier is planning on laying off employees as part of an effort to 'reshape Frontier' following disappointing financial performance, according to a new report by GamesIndustry.biz.

Over the weekend, a few well-known developers at Cryptic Studios posted «looking for work» notices on their LinkedIn, fueling speculation that something might be happening at the MMO developer. Given the current climate of game studios laying off staff recently, the LinkedIn posts have fueled fears that Cryptic might be gearing up to be the next.

The games industry is going through a time of troubles right now with multiple studios laying off their staff members recently, and it seems no one is really safe. Reports today show layoffs from Sony studio Naughty Dog, as well as at Twitch, while yesterday saw layoffs at Team17.

Epic Games is the latest company making major layoffs, with about 830 employees, or 16% of the company’s employees, affected. Another 250 employees will leave via sales of several Epic-owned companies.

Last night, talk of layoffs from Activision Blizzard affecting the Hearthstone team began to circulate, with several employees sharing the news. Among them was an engineer that had been with the company for 18 years.

Volition Games has shut down as part of Embracer Group’s ongoing restructuring. The studio, which has roots going back to 1993, is behind the Saint’s Row series, Red Faction, and Summoner.

Evercore Heroes has been put into an open access maintenance mode as developer Vela Games has decided to retool the game after “the Closed Beta has not met our expectations as players or as a business”.

BioWare general manager Gary McKay has announced they are “reorganizing” their team and laying off about 50 people. McKay makes it clear that the teams continue working on core franchises, Dragon Age and Mass Effect.