…However, the company is seemingly also looking at initiating a major layoffs wave at Xbox and perhaps even a studio closure. The new report lands from Kotaku , Xbox first-party developer Compulsion…
…Several Xbox studios may be on the chopping block as part of the layoffs, including Undead Labs, Double Fine Productions, Compulsion, and Ninja Theory. The affected studios alone represent more than 400…
…and shutter a slew of studios, including most recently Bluepoint Games . Here’s a list of all PlayStation first-party studio closures since the PS5’s launch year: 2020 Manchester Studio 2021…
…Layoffs & Studio Closures Take-Two About the Author Danielle Riendeau Editor-in-Chief, GameDeveloper.com Danielle is the editor-in-chief of Game Developer, with previous editorial posts at Fanbyte, VICE, and…
…The new closures and restructurings are estimated to result in as many as 380 layoffs. Ubisoft Winnipeg is a Canadian studio that has operated since 2019. Over its seven years in operation…
…This is the third round of layoffs in the past year, along with the reported closure of BARB France in March. The Montpellier studio opened in 2022 . Last month, when responding to…
…Earlier in June, the company confirmed additional downsizing, including closures of Ubisoft Belgrade and Winnipeg , as well as a significant restructuring of its Barcelona branch. The Spanish studio is now being refocused…
Obsidian Entertainment is one of the Xbox-owned studios currently negotiating with Microsoft to avoid closure. That’s according to The Game Business , which lists the Avowed and The Outer Worlds studio…
…He namedropped a lot of studios that might soon be affected by either studio closures or layoffs, and they were a mix of studios notoriously in financial difficulty and a few unsuspecting…
…Now IO Interactive has managed to get both the publishing and IP rights to Project Fantasy. Unfortunately, the studio has also announced layoffs and the closure of its studio in Istanbul, Turkey…
