Labor - Aftermath (Page 8)

Big Video Game Publishers Like Microsoft Are Paving Their Own Path To Irrelevance

This week, Microsoft — a company that already announced layoffs of 1,900 game workers earlier this year — once again took the scythe to its own workforce, shuttering four Bethesda studios

By Nathan Grayson

/ 8 May 2024

Big Video Game Publishers Like Microsoft Are Paving Their Own Path To Irrelevance

When Is It Enough

It’s another day in the darkest timeline: Microsoft announced today that it’s closing four Bethesda studios, following on the heels of wider layoffs in January. According to an

By Riley MacLeod

/ 7 May 2024

You Don't Have To Cheer For Big Tech

On this week’s episode of Aftermath Hours (which is coming to you a little after hours, a choice I obviously made on purpose so I could make this joke)

By Riley MacLeod

/ 19 Apr 2024

Prytania Media Saga Continues With Shutdown Of Possibility Space

Possibility Space, a Prytania Media-owned game studio, has shut down. This follows in the footsteps of Crop Circle Games, also owned by Prytania, which had layoffs and furloughs in February

By Riley MacLeod

/ 12 Apr 2024

Prytania Media Saga Continues With Shutdown Of Possibility Space

Sega Workers Secure Union Contract, Despite Layoffs

When last we heard from the Allied Employees Guild Improving Sega (AEGIS), things were looking a little contentious. The union, then comprised of around 200 temporary and full-time Sega employees

By Nathan Grayson

/ 27 Mar 2024

Sega Workers Secure Union Contract, Despite Layoffs

Rockstar Employees Concerned About Crunch, Grand Theft Auto VI As Company Moves Forward With Return To Office

Late last month, Rockstar brass told employees that beginning on April 15, they’d have to work out of the office five days per week. It was a deeply unpopular

By Nathan Grayson

/ 19 Mar 2024

Rockstar Employees Concerned About Crunch, Grand Theft Auto VI As Company Moves Forward With Return To Office

Why So Many Games Journalists End Up Going Into Game Development

Natalie Flores wasn’t going to let herself get laid off twice. She made her peace with the idea of getting cut from a games journalism job one time – she’

By Nathan Grayson

/ 14 Mar 2024

Why So Many Games Journalists End Up Going Into Game Development

Major Game Development Studios Are Leaving Their Owners Behind

In a year where every week has felt like a year, it sure has been a week (that felt like a year), huh? We started off with industry-rocking layoffs at

By Nathan Grayson

/ 1 Mar 2024

Major Game Development Studios Are Leaving Their Owners Behind

PlayStation's London Studio, Creators Of The Revolutionary Singstar, Deserved Better Than This

The news that PlayStation is laying off around 900 people, or around 8% of its total global workforce, should be viewed for what it is: a callous and depraved act

By Luke Plunkett

/ 28 Feb 2024

The ‘Sustainable’ Studio That’s Risen From Volition’s Ashes

Rob Loftus, ex-principal producer at Volition, calls what happened to his former workplace last August a “gut punch.” In a suspiciously coincidental bit of timing, the Embracer-owned studio announced that

By Nathan Grayson

/ 27 Feb 2024

The ‘Sustainable’ Studio That’s Risen From Volition’s Ashes

PlayStation Laying Off 900 People, 8% Of Workforce

PlayStation announced Tuesday that it’s laying off about 900 people, or 8% of its workforce. The cuts will impact “employees across the globe, including our studios.” In a letter

By Riley MacLeod

/ 27 Feb 2024

You Can Never Satisfy These Ghouls

Last week Microsoft laid off almost 2000 people from its gaming division, a staggering 8% of that section's total workforce. People with families, dependents, mortgages. People who had

By Luke Plunkett

/ 30 Jan 2024