Amazon Games has confirmed another round of layoffs, this time affecting around 180 people. This comes with a promise to refocus on Prime Gaming benefits for consumers, and at a time of many industry layoffs.
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.Â
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.
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.
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 as well as the target window for its upcoming game, Marathon.
 Embracer Group layoffs have hit cinematics animation studio Digic Pictures, which the company acquired in 2021.Â
Frontier is planning on laying off employees as part of an effort to 'reshape Frontier' following disappointing financial performance, according to a new report.
Over the weekend, a few well-known developers at Cryptic Studios posted "looking for work" notices on their LinkedIn, fueling speculation that there might be something going on over at the MMO developer.
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.
As part of its ongoing restructuring, Embracer Group has shut down Saint's Row and Red Faction developer Volition Games.
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".
A restructuring at BioWare as a more "agile" team will mean about 50 layoffs as the company focuses on its single-player franchises, Dragon Age and Mass Effect.