According to EDD, 25% of the 800 people recently laid off by Activision Blizzard were Blizzard Entertainment employees.
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March 9, 2019
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.
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Adrian Werner
March 9, 2019
Valve has laid off 13 full-time employees last month. Some third-party contracts were also cancelled. The reason for the layoffs remains unknown.
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Bart Swiatek
March 8, 2019
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.
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Adrian Werner
February 26, 2019
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.
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Bart Swiatek
February 22, 2019
More alarming news concerning Activision. Bloomberg news agency reports that next week the company is to cut as much as hundreds of jobs.
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Konrad Serafinski
February 9, 2019
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.
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Milosz Szubert
January 23, 2019
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.
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Jacob Blazewicz
January 15, 2019
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.
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Milosz Szubert
January 11, 2019
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.
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Bart Swiatek
January 3, 2019
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.”.
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Milosz Szubert
December 11, 2018
Mike Laidlaw, senior creative director for Dragon Age: Inquisition, has announced that he is leaving BioWare after 14 years.
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October 13, 2017
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.
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October 4, 2017
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.
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September 25, 2017
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.
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July 3, 2017
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.
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September 29, 2016
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.
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March 11, 2016
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.
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February 18, 2016
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.
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February 11, 2016
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.
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Christopher Mysiak
July 24, 2015