Diamond Member Pelican Press 0 Posted December 28, 2024 Diamond Member Share Posted December 28, 2024 This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up Every Known Games Industry Layoff In 2024 There’s no denying that 2024 has been a – mostly – great year for video games. Incredible games like Balatro, Helldivers 2, Astro Bot, Metaphor: Refantazio and others all released to give players hours of fun. But while there was plenty of good, there was also a lot of bad. In 2024, there were nearly This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up lost in the games industry with the real number based on unannounced numbers and layoffs being well over 16,000. Studios big and small suffered losses of either just a few people or entire teams. And while the layoffs spanned over 160 companies, some suffered more than others. Let’s take a look back at the year that was to remind us of the fact that this industry still has a ways to go with how people are treated. The number of estimated or known people let go during each layoff is listed next to the company. Every Known Games Layoff of 2024 January Archiact – 20 Slipgate Ironworks – Unknown Unity Technologies – 1800 This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up – 500 Playtika – 350 Nesting Games – 68 Lost Boys Interactive – 125 Piranha Bytes – Unknown Pole To Win (PTW) – 45 Wimo Games – 20 Netspeak Games – 25 Thunderful Group – 75 Pixelberry – Unknown Ntreev Soft – 70 31st Union – Unknown Cloud Imperium Games – 30 Behaviour Interactive – 45 Chief Rebel – Unknown Metaverse World – 70 Little Red Dog Games – 30 Riot Games – 530 Warducks – 10 People Can Fly Studios – 30 ****** Forest Games – 40 Activision Blizzard – 1900 Eidos Montreal – 97 Starword Industries – 15 Nimble Giant – Unknown Artificer – Unknown Airship Syndicate – 12 Rovio Montreal – 12 February Chimera Entertainment – 20 Threaks – 25 Crop Circle Games – Unknown Cloud Imperium Games – Unknown Visual Concepts – Unknown GameScience – 10 Hidden Path Entertainment – 44 91Act – 15 Threshold Games – 11 Daybreak Games – 15 Genvid Technologies – Unknown Scopely – 15 Noggin – Unknown Build a Rocket Boy – Unknown GameLoft Lviv – 38 Disruptive Games – Unknown CodeMasters – Unknown Die Gut Fabrik – 10 SuperMassive Games – 90 Deck Nine Games – 25 PlayStation Studios – 900 Wildlife Studios – 130 Electronic Arts – 670 505 Games – Unknown Keoken Interactive – 4 March Babaroga Games – 4 Radical Forge – 6 FrogSong Studios – 25 ZA/UM – 24 ***** of America – 61 Deviation Games – 50 Something Wicked Games – 40 Velan Studios – 46 Happy Volcano – 8 Tarsier Studios – Unknown Smilegate Barcelona – 45 ***** HARDLight – Unknown Creative Assembly – 240 Certain Affinity – 25 Gearbox Publishing – Unknown April Bold Spirit Game Studio – 30 Ubisoft – 45 MI-CLOS Studio – 20 Whitethorn Games – 5 Spearhead Games – 31 Singularity 6 – 49 Relic Entertainment – 40 Ubisoft Korea – Unknown Possibility Space – 70 Kwalee – 40 TakeTwo Interactive – 600 ModernWolf – 6 Bethesda France – 15 Flaming Fowl Studios – 20 NCSoft – Unknown Keoken Interactive – 13 May Paladin Studios – 45 Bethesda Softworks – Unknown Tango GameWorks – 150 Alpha Dog Games – 25 Arkane Austin – 60 Dawon Interactive – Unknown Lightforge Games – 35 Cloud Imperium Games – 30 Mighty Kingdom – 25 Studio Wildcard – 6 Singularity 6 – 36 Phoenix Labs – 162 GameLoft Cluj – 136 Fall Damage – 50 Hatchery Games – 13 ZeniMax Asia – Unknown Private Division – Unknown June Avalanche Studios – 50 Behaviour Interactive – 95 Gameloft Kharkiv – 41 Sumo Digital – 250 VR Chat – 50 Striking Distance – Unknown Galvanic Games – Unknown Pieces Interactive – 40 Paradox Tectonic – 24 Cut to Bits – 10 Ubisoft Toronto – 33 Gameloft Toronto – 49 July Surgent Studios – 12 Splash Damage – Unknown NetherRealm Studios – 50 Rumble Games – 200 Humble Games – 36 Bungie – 220 August Jam City – 85 Ready at Dawn – Unknown Com2us – 100 Archiact – 35 Payload Studios – 12 CodeName Entertainment – 6 Ubisoft San Francisco/North Carolina – 45 Visual Concepts South – Unknown Toadman Interactive – 100 September Tilting Point – 90 Rocksteady – Unknown Ballistic Moon – 18 Lost Boys Interactive – 139 Xbox/Activision – 650 Evening Star – 6 nDreams – Unknown SkyBox Labs – 25 Airship Syndicate – 16 Midwinter – 35 Merge Games – 22 Mountaintop Studios – 22 Nexon America – Unknown October XR Games – 72 Sharkmob London – Unknown Hi-Rez – 70 Motorsport Games – 24 Studio ****** Flag – 5 Antstream Arcade – Unknown Tequila Works – Unknown Cryptic Studios – Unknown NaturalMotion – Unknown Riot Games – 32 Bandai Namco – 100 Don’t Nod – 69 This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up Game Studios – Unknown NCSoft – 500 Firewalk Studios – 172 Neon Koi – 45 ProbablyMonsters – 50 Inflexion Games – 22 November Skydance – 12 Payload Studios – 8 Lilith Games – 40 Thunderful Group – 100 Reflector – 27 Zapper Games – 18 Heart Machine – 8 Humanoid Origin – 70 KING Art Games – 10 Worlds Untold – 35 Cloud Imperium Games – 12 December Ubisoft – 277 Sweet Bandits – 18 Torn Banner Studios – Unknown IllFonic – Unknown Deck Nine Games – Unknown People Can Fly Studios – 120 Cloud Imperium Games – Unknown Warner Bros. Montreal – 99 11 Bit Studios – Unknown What do you think to future holds for the games industry in 2024? Let us know down below or in the official Insider Gaming community forums. SUBSCRIBE to our newsletter to receive the latest news and exclusive leaks every week! No Spam. Related Posts This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up #Games #Industry #Layoff This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up 0 Quote Link to comment https://hopzone.eu/forums/topic/187745-every-known-games-industry-layoff-in-2024/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
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