layoffs / employments Latest news (5)

Paul Wozniak, 20 July 2019, 14:10

The co-founder of Blizzard leaves the company after 28 years of work. In his official statement, he thanks others for the opportunity to fulfill his dream of creating video games.

Julia Dragovic, 05 July 2019, 15:38

After a considerable purge of staff, Blizzard started recruiting Community Managers for Hearthstone. It would not be surprising if it were not for the fact that six months ago, for financial reasons, the company fired all of them. Former employees are not particularly satisfied with this fact, to put it mildly. Some of them are still unemployed.

Jacob Blazewicz, 26 June 2019, 23:45

PUBG Corp. has announced the employment of Glen Schofield as head of the new studio. The creator of Dead Space and the Call of Duty series will lead the Striking Distance team in creating story-oriented productions set in the Playerunknown's Battlegrounds universe.

Paul Wozniak, 20 June 2019, 18:08

The former CEO of Sony, who has been the chairman of the supervisory board since last year, Kazuo (Kaz) Hirai, retired on June 18. Hirai has worked for 35 years in the company and has a lot of successes to his credit.

Adrian Werner, 18 June 2019, 15:25

Things are bad in Amazon Game Studios. Several dozen employees were laid off and unannounced projects were cancelled. One of the main reasons for these problems is the Lumberyard engine.

Jacob Blazewicz, 02 June 2019, 23:48

More high-profile employees can leave the ranks of Blizzard Entertainment. According to Dexerto there will be several resignations from the Blizzard E-sports team in the next two weeks. Reason - low morale due to the decisions made by the management.

Bart Swiatek, 05 April 2019, 16:28

In a recent podcast organized by the editorial staff of GameStar, one of the CD Projekt RED developers admitted that it is not rare for the company to hire talented modders.

ElMundo, 01 April 2019, 14:59

One of the biggest producers of hardware components – Intel – plans to lay off several hundred people from two of its offices. What's more, Tom Petersen, one of Nvidia's top workers is going to join the company.

Bart Swiatek, 28 March 2019, 15:20

Former CEO of Sony, currently the company's chairman – Kazuo (Kaz) Hirai – will retire on June 18. Hirai has spent 35 years in the company and is responsible for many of its successes.

ElMundo, 27 March 2019, 00:19

Electronic Arts announced that 350 workers will be laid off - the redundancies will mainly affect the publishing and marketing departments.

ElMundo, 13 March 2019, 17:29

Google is serious about entering the video game market – the company announced that it will present "the future of gaming" during the upcoming Game Developers Conference 2019.

Frozen, 09 March 2019, 23:26

According to EDD, 25% of the 800 people recently laid off by Activision Blizzard were Blizzard Entertainment employees.

Adrian Werner, 09 March 2019, 20:44

Artifact's situation is getting progressively worse. As it turns out, the title has lost its two lead gameplay designers, Richard Garfield and Skaff Elias.

Bart Swiatek, 08 March 2019, 16:19

Valve has laid off 13 full-time employees last month. Some third-party contracts were also cancelled. The reason for the layoffs remains unknown.

Adrian Werner, 26 February 2019, 10:05

GOG.com has fired a significant number of employees. The reason for the layoffs is allegedly financial difficulties and the mounting market pressure to reduce the revenues of digital distribution stores.

Bart Swiatek, 22 February 2019, 14:19

On April 15, Reggie Fils-Aime will resign as the CEO of Nintendo of America. His duties will be taken over by Doug Bowser, currently the company's Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing.

Konrad Serafinski, 09 February 2019, 19:27

More alarming news concerning Activision. Bloomberg news agency reports that next week the company is to cut as much as hundreds of jobs.

Milosz Szubert, 23 January 2019, 13:26

Sebastian Stepien, co-writer and story designer for the Witcher series and the upcoming Cyberpunk 2077, left CD Projekt RED. His new employer is Blizzard, where the developer took over as Creative Director.

Jacob Blazewicz, 15 January 2019, 00:10

Activision paid the equivalent of $15 million to Dennis Durkin in exchange for signing an agreement to take up the position of Chief Financial Officer.

Milosz Szubert, 11 January 2019, 19:13

A new patch has been released for Fallout 76, the 1.1.2 update is available in Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Final Fantasy X/X2 HD and Final Fantasy XII The Zodiac Age have been announced on Nintendo Switch and Xbox One. Mike Morhaime quits Blizz for good.

Bart Swiatek, 03 January 2019, 18:51

Activision Blizzard announced in a statement issued to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that it will dismiss its financial director, Spencer Neumann. The dismissal is not related to the company's financial performance.

Milosz Szubert, 11 December 2018, 14:06

Glen Schofield, one of the co-founders of Sledgehammer Games, announced that he will leave Activision at the end of the year to „try something new.”.

luckie, 13 October 2017, 13:12

Mike Laidlaw, senior creative director for Dragon Age: Inquisition, has announced that he is leaving BioWare after 14 years.

luckie, 04 October 2017, 21:03

Is Cyberpunk 2077 in trouble? Although that conclusion may be a bit too hasty, it is noteworthy that several key developers left CD Projekt RED last month.

luckie, 25 September 2017, 11:52

The developer of Dear Esther and Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture decided to lay off most of its team. The studio, which is now down to three people, is taking a creative break.

luckie, 03 July 2017, 14:11

Tomek Gop, who had been co-developing Lords of the Fallen 2 for CI Games, has been pushed away from that project and is now working on Ancestors for Hatred creators, Destructive Creations.

luckie, 29 September 2016, 15:48

Quantum Break lead designer and gameplay producer from Rockstar North have joined the Cyberpunk 2077 team. Looks like The Witcher 3 devs are serious about making their next game even more awesome.

Mariusz Socha, 11 March 2016, 12:01

CI Games evidently changed their heart about dismissing Tomasz Gop from their team. The Project Lead of Lords of the Fallen is now back in the studio in order to work on the sequel.

luckie, 18 February 2016, 10:27

System Shock 3 development will be led by Warren Spector, a game industry veteran who had previously worked on such classics as System Shock, Deus Ex, and the Ultima series.

luckie, 11 February 2016, 10:20

Developers of Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition and its upcoming expansion happily greeted ex-BioWare David Gaider as their new creative director. The writer behind Dragon Age series will guide the studio in their new projects.

Christopher Mysiak, 24 July 2015, 17:53

The CI Games CEO Marek Tyminski announced that the action RPG Lords of the Fallen 2 will be completed without Tomasz Gop, the producer involved in the first installment, who has left the company.