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List of 2024 gaming industry layoffs

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This is a list of video game companies with most job cuts in 2024. video game industry continues to witness employment declines initiated in 2023, with significant layoffs announced by major publishers like Riot Games, Microsoft Gaming, Electronic Arts, Sony Interactive Entertainment and others. Over 8,000 jobs were lost between January and February alone.[1]

Most of the job cuts occurred in North America and Europe, with video game industry in the United States being the most affected, followed by Canada, United Kingdom and Poland.[1]

Microsoft Gaming laid off the most workers, with 1,900 affected, followed by Unity Technologies with 1,800 staff, and Sony Interactive Entertainment with 900 staff. Additionally, over six studios on this list laid off their entire staff and shut down.[2][3][4]

Layoffs[edit]

Total 8,672 [1]
Rank Company Number of layoffs % of workforce Ref.
1 Microsoft Gaming 1,900 ~8% [2]
2 Unity Technologies 1,800 ~25% [3]
3 Sony Interactive Entertainment 900 ~8% [4]
4 Electronic Arts 670 ~5% [5]
5 Riot Games 530 ~11% [6]
6 Twitch 500 ~35% [7]
7 Playtika 400 ~10% [8]
8 Discord 170 ~17% [9]
9 Wildlife Studios 133 ~21% [10]
10 Digital Bros. 130 ~30% [11]
11 Lost Boys Interactive 125 Unknown [12]
12 Pixelberry Studios 120 Unknown [13]
13 Thunderful Group 105 ~20% [14]
14 Eidos Montreal 97 ~20% [15]
15 Supermassive Games 90 ~30% [16]
16 Reikon Games 70 ~80% [17]
17 NCSoft West 70 ~20% [18]
18 Netmarble 70 Unknown [19]
19 Sega of America 61 ~10% [20]
20 91Act 60 ~99% [21]
21 Black Forest Games 50 ~50% [22]
22 Crop Circle Games 50 Unknown [23]
23 Behaviour Interactive 45 Unknown [24]
24 PTW 45 Unknown [25]
25 Hidden Path Entertainment 44 ~50% [26]
26 Gameloft 38 Unknown [27]
27 People Can Fly 30 Unknown [28]
28 Deck Nine Games 30 ~20% [29]
29 Wimo Games 35 ~100% [30]
30 Nimble Giant Entertainment 30 Unknown [31]
31 Artificer 28 Unknown [21]
32 Little Red Dog Games 27 ~100% [21]
33 Netspeak Games 25 Unknown [32]
34 Threaks 25 ~100% [33]
35 ZA/UM 24 Unknown [34]
36 Chief Rebel 21 Unknown [21]
37 CI Games 20 ~10% [35]
38 Bossa Studios 19 ~40% [36]
39 Scopely 15 Unknown [37]
40 One Player Mission 15 ~100% [38]
41 Airship Syndicate 12 Unknown [39]
42 Threshold Games 11 ~100% [21]
43 Die Gute Fabrik 10 Unknown [21]
44 31st Union 10 Unknown [40]
45 Visual Concepts Austin 9 Unknown [41]
46 Funselektor 3 Unknown [25]
— Disruptive Games Unknown Unknown [21]
Build a Rocket Boy Unknown Unknown [42]
Daybreak Games Unknown Unknown [21]
ESL Faceit Group Unknown ~15% [43]
Double Loop Games Unknown ~100% [44]
Archiact Unknown Unknown [45]
Com2uS Unknown Unknown [46]
Cloud Imperium Unknown Unknown [47]

Closed studios[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "59 Days Into 2024 And 8,100+ Video Game Layoffs Have Been Announced". Kotaku. 2024-01-10. Retrieved 2024-03-02.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Warren, Tom (2024-01-25). "Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees". The Verge. Retrieved 2024-03-02.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Carpenter, Nicole (2024-01-08). "Unity cuts 1,800 more staff in 'company reset'". Polygon. Retrieved 2024-03-02.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "PlayStation's Sony to cut 900 jobs amid brutal year for video game industry layoffs". NBC News. 2024-02-27. Retrieved 2024-03-02.
  5. ↑ "Electronic Arts to Cut 5% of Workforce and Sunset Some Games". Bloomberg.com. 2024-02-28. Retrieved 2024-03-02.
  6. ↑ Andy ChalkContributions from Tyler Wilde (2024-01-23). "Riot lays off 530 employees, will close Riot Forge: 'We're not doing this to appease shareholders or to hit some quarterly earnings number,' says CEO". PC Gamer. Retrieved 2024-03-02.
  7. ↑ "Amazon's Twitch to Cut 500 Employees, About 35% of Staff". Bloomberg.com. 2024-01-09. Retrieved 2024-03-02.
  8. ↑ Writer, Jeffrey Rousseau Staff (2024-01-11). "Playtika reduces staff by 10%". GamesIndustry.biz. Retrieved 2024-03-02.
  9. ↑ Heath, Alex (2024-01-11). "Discord is laying off 17 percent of employees". The Verge. Retrieved 2024-03-02.
  10. ↑ Writer, Jeffrey Rousseau Staff (2024-02-29). "Wildlife Studios cuts 21% of its staff". GamesIndustry.biz. Retrieved 2024-03-02.
  11. ↑ Carpenter, Nicole (2023-11-15). "Kongregate, Digital Bros. cut jobs in a growing wave of video game industry layoffs". Polygon. Retrieved 2024-03-02.
  12. ↑ Andy Chalk (2024-01-16). "Embracer-owned Lost Boys Interactive confirms 'difficult' layoffs". PC Gamer. Retrieved 2024-03-02.
  13. ↑ "Nexon-owned mobile studio Pixelberry is conducting layoffs". www.gamedeveloper.com. Retrieved 2024-03-02.
  14. ↑ Editor, Marie Dealessandri Deputy (2024-01-17). "Thunderful announces restructuring that will cut 20% of its workforce". GamesIndustry.biz. Retrieved 2024-03-02.
  15. ↑ Hollister, Sean (2024-01-29). "Embracer lays off 97 Eidos employees and cancels new Deus Ex game". The Verge. Retrieved 2024-03-02.
  16. ↑ Kaser, Rachel (2024-02-26). "Supermassive Games adds to the expanding list of industry layoffs". VentureBeat. Retrieved 2024-03-02.
  17. ↑ Valentine, Rebekah (2024-01-25). "Ruiner Developer Reikon Games Reportedly Lays Off 80% of the Company". IGN. Retrieved 2024-03-02.
  18. ↑ Takahashi, Dean (2023-02-02). "NCSoft West lays off 20% of its staff and CEO departs". VentureBeat. Retrieved 2024-03-02.
  19. ↑ Zwiezen, Zack (2024-03-02). "62 Days Into 2024 And 8300+ Video Game Layoffs Have Been Announced". Kotaku Australia. Retrieved 2024-03-02.
  20. ↑ "Sega of America is reportedly laying off more than 10% of staff". VGC. 2024-01-31. Retrieved 2024-03-02.
  21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 21.2 21.3 21.4 21.5 21.6 21.7 21.8 21.9 "59 Days Into 2024 And 8,100+ Video Game Layoffs Have Been Announced". Kotaku. 2024-01-10. Retrieved 2024-03-02.
  22. ↑ "Embracer-Owned Black Forest Games Has Laid Off 50% Of Its Staff - Report". GameSpot. Retrieved 2024-03-02.
  23. ↑ "Indie dev Crop Circle Games appears to be laying off staff". www.gamedeveloper.com. Retrieved 2024-03-02.
  24. ↑ Harradence, Michael (2024-01-18). "Dead By Daylight Developer Behaviour Interactive Reportedly Hit By Layoffs". PlayStation Universe. Retrieved 2024-03-02.
  25. ↑ 25.0 25.1 "59 Days Into 2024 And 8,100+ Video Game Layoffs Have Been Announced". Kotaku. 2024-01-10. Retrieved 2024-03-02.
  26. ↑ www.bizjournals.com https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2024/02/08/hidden-path-entertainment-bellevue-video-game.html. Retrieved 2024-03-02. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  27. ↑ Griffiths, Daniel; PocketGamer.biz, Editor- (2024-02-22). "Global layoffs at Gameloft as staff in Ukraine and Canada confirm redundancies". pocketgamer.biz. Retrieved 2024-03-02.CS1 maint: Extra text: authors list (link)
  28. ↑ LeBlanc, Wesley (2021-04-01). "Outriders Studio People Can Fly Lays Off More Than 30 Employees". Game Informer. Retrieved 2024-03-02.
  29. ↑ LeBlanc, Wesley. "Life Is Strange: True Colors Developer Deck Nine Laying Off 20 Percent Of Staff". Game Informer. Retrieved 2024-03-02.
  30. ↑ 30.0 30.1 "Micro Machines VR Developer WIMO Games Shuts Down". UploadVR. 2024-01-18. Retrieved 2024-03-02.
  31. ↑ "Embracer lays off staff at Star Trek: Infinite dev Nimble Giant". www.gamedeveloper.com. Retrieved 2024-03-02.
  32. ↑ "Sunshine Days developer Netspeak Games is making layoffs". www.gamedeveloper.com. Retrieved 2024-03-02.
  33. ↑ 33.0 33.1 "Indie developer Threaks is shutting down". www.gamedeveloper.com. Retrieved 2024-03-02.
  34. ↑ Wutz, Marco (2024-02-19). "Sources: Disco Elysium dev ZA/UM to lay off around a quarter of its staff, cancels new game". Video Games on Sports Illustrated. Retrieved 2024-03-02.
  35. ↑ Pureza, Gabriel Machado (2024-01-18). "Lords of the Fallen Publisher Announces Layoffs". Game Rant. Retrieved 2024-03-02.
  36. ↑ Editor-in-chief, James Batchelor (2024-01-05). "Bossa Studios lays off one third of its staff". GamesIndustry.biz. Retrieved 2024-03-02.CS1 maint: Extra text: authors list (link)
  37. ↑ Editor, Brendan Sinclair Managing (2024-02-14). "Scopely layoffs hit Kingdom Maker team". GamesIndustry.biz. Retrieved 2024-03-02.
  38. ↑ 38.0 38.1 B2B, Christopher Dring Head of Games (2024-01-23). "UK recruitment firm OPM closes after 26 years". GamesIndustry.biz. Retrieved 2024-03-02.
  39. ↑ Allen, Joseph (2024-02-01). "Wayfinder and Ruined King Studio Airship Syndicate Reportedly Hit by Layoffs". TechRaptor. Retrieved 2024-03-02.
  40. ↑ Writer, Sophie McEvoy Staff (2024-01-19). "31st Union lays off "small number" of staff". GamesIndustry.biz. Retrieved 2024-03-02.
  41. ↑ "Layoffs hit WWE, Lego 2K Drive studio Visual Concepts Austin". Eurogamer.net. 2024-02-07. Retrieved 2024-03-02.
  42. ↑ "Everywhere and Mindseye developer Build a Rocket Boy announces layoffs". PCGamesN. 2024-02-20. Retrieved 2024-03-02.
  43. ↑ Andy Chalk (2024-02-27). "'The largest esports company in the world' is laying off 15% of its workforce". PC Gamer. Retrieved 2024-03-02.
  44. ↑ 44.0 44.1 "Double Loop Games is closing its doors after four years". www.gamedeveloper.com. Retrieved 2024-03-02.
  45. ↑ "Independent VR studio Archiact is making layoffs". www.gamedeveloper.com. Retrieved 2024-03-02.
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