Avalanche Studios, the company behind Just Cause, Mad Max, Rage 2, The Hunter, Generation Zero, and the upcoming (but possibly cancelled) Contraband is laying off staff.

The studio in Liverpool will be closed, leaving Malmo and Stockholm standing, but with fewer workers.

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Funcom shuts down The Outsiders. The studio existed for a decade and is known for a fairly successful rhythm shooter Metal: Hellsinger.

And Funcom also let go a lot of their own staff members: it seems that the recent launch of Dune: Awakening wasn't a long lasting success.

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Build A Rocket Boy workers and ex-workers are blaming senior management (Mark Gerhard and Leslie Benzies) and their denial of feedback in the failed Mindseye release.

And in what happened after that too: apparently, redundancies were made in a very poor manner and not always in line with law.

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There are massive layoffs at MASSIVE ENTERTAINMENT, that you may know for Star Wars Outlaws, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, and The Division.

But they haven't fired people... THEY ARE HELPING WITH THEIR CAREER TRANSITION!

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The whole Splash Damage may be shut down. The studio, acting under British laws, has to make "consultations" before laying off people en masse.

They were working on Gears of War, Halo, and several other titles.

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Let's keep in mind, that most of Deus Ex makers already left (long ago). Some worked on Unknown 9, some on Hell Is Us.

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Wreckreation game wrecked even further: after the initially poor reception just a month ago, the whole Three Fields Entertainment studio is now under redundancy notice.

According to the CEO, the publisher hasn't founded the 2025 development budget at all. And since revenue quotas aren't met, the studio will not see any revenue in the future as well, and so it can't continue to exist. Unless someone will save them and found the next milestone.

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The new Avatar DLC is probably the best thing Ubisoft delivered in ages. They made it 3rd person, removed fillers, created a worthy story, and fixed gameplay features.

One year after the original game and they turned it into a very impressive journey, that people actually liked.

Now the team behind it is being cut days after the release and after The Division 10th anniversary.

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Windows off-center: it seems that one of the biggest media about Windows OS laid off all of its gaming team members, except ONE.

PC Gamer and GamesRadar+ – may have also been impacted, according to the report. 80LV team suggests that the total loss in game and hardware journalism industry exceeded 4000 people in the last couple of years.

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Autodesk continues their annual tradition by laying off 7% (or about 1000) of their workers. They will invest into AI instead.

Long story short: donate to Blender! https://fund.blender.org

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It seems that HQ of Ubisoft is also facing job cuts!

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Remember that fighting game you don't actually remember? It's not doing good...

The project has been in development for about a decade and has been released on PC and consoles last month after some kind of beta testing.

But something went wrong. Riot ignored Steam and never targeted the broad genre fans, hoping and League of Legends community will sort it out. It didn't.

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The studio behind very nice The Demon Souls and Shadow of Collosus remakes is being shut down by PlayStation.

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They were doing what? 😑

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NACON has no more money to operate its property and trying to settle it with investors.

They are the company behind Cyanide (Styx), Daedalic (Deponia, Gollum, State of Mind), Spiders (GreedFall, Steelrising). In total there are over 25 companies, 1000+ employees, and over 100 locations.

Not a full Bankruptcy, but they are fairly close to it. And they still plan a new presentation on March 6 and hoping to freeze their obligations by up to 18 months.

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The original founder of Twitter and AI-fanatic Jack is shrinking his current company from 10000+ to just 6000 workers.

He says that:

we're not making this decision because we're in trouble. our business is strong

According to internal documents, his team now despise him for pushing use of AI under "productivity" promise, but their overall opinion "we would use it already if it would be even remotely productive".

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Battlefield 6 team did a good job upon release but it's not catching up with content and bug fixes yet again.

EA is laying off employees to lower the financial pressure from the whole Battlefield franchise.

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Meme related

(By estimates, up to 20 million copies of Battlefield 6 could be already sold).

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Ballistic Moon is now officially closed. The studio behind the pointless Until Dawn Remaster has been an empty shell for a while now, but now it's completely gone.

The original game used to have a carefully placed fog and light flares. In the remaster they simply dropped the most basic 3D fog everywhere and called it a day (or a night, IDK)

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WB Games Montreal, the studio behind Gotham Knights and cancelled Wonder Woman game is laying off undisclosed number of people.

They were also a supportive studio in Kill the Justice League.

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