Inside Baseball Week 2026 / At A Worker-Run Game Studio, Employees Voted To Lose Their Jobs 'If the team voted to just ride it out, let's just all shut down the studio together, then that's what we would have done’ By Riley MacLeod / 29 Oct 2026
News / Layoffs Hit Ghost Of Yotei Developer Sucker Punch 24 employees are being let go after the studio produced one of Sony's best-selling games of 2026 By Nathan Grayson / 26 Oct 2026
News / Electronic Arts Closing BioWare, Laying Off Hundreds Around 400 people are expected to be laid off across Electronic Arts By Nicole Carpenter / 21 Oct 2026
Feature / With Call Of Duty Release Near And No Union Contract In Sight, Activision Workers Authorize Strike "There could be more bugs. There could be server issues. There could be missing features. ... No QA, no games" By Nathan Grayson / 15 Oct 2026
News / Ninja Theory Laying Off Employees Ahead Of Possible Closure Microsoft announced it would close Ninja Theory after a divestiture deal fell through By Nicole Carpenter / 5 Oct 2026
News / Xbox Lays Off More Workers, Combines Studios Xbox cut 268 additional jobs, and brought Obsidian under Bethesda alongside other changes By Riley MacLeod / 22 Sep 2026
Video Games / IGN Ownership Chooses Busiest Time For Games Media In Years To Lay A Bunch Of People Off [Update] Those impacted include Brian Altano and Seth Macy By Luke Plunkett / 14 Sep 2026
Video Games / Wake Up Babe, New Layoff Horrors Just Dropped Seven workers were reportedly laid off at PowerWash Simulator developer FuturLab, with remaining employees told to call them "the leavers" and team leads cut out of the process By Riley MacLeod / 8 Sep 2026
News / Restart, Walmart's Gaming Site, Lays Off Entire Editorial Team The site started in December 2024 By Riley MacLeod and Nathan Grayson / 7 Aug 2026
News / Just After CEOs Praised Netflix's FIFA Game, Its Developer Has Reportedly Been Shut Down Both platform Netflix and publisher Delphi Interactive praised FIFA World Cup: Launch Edition in July By Riley MacLeod / 3 Aug 2026
unions / Game Devs Start Worker Hardship Fund For Laid Off Colleagues Proceeds from a 100+ game bundle will go toward the fund. By Nicole Carpenter / 30 Jul 2026
Labor / Layoffs Leave The Future Of Xbox’s Award-Winning Accessibility Efforts In Doubt Former workers say Xbox cuts leave less resources and experts to make sure games are developed, labelled, and tested with accessibility in mind By Grant Stoner / 22 Jul 2026
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