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2026-07-03 1 story
2026-07-02 4 stories
- Union workers establish hardship fund to support devs impacted by layoffs
- Rockstar UK employees say the GTA 6 developer's still plagued by gender pay gaps, crunch, and vague bonuses which make them 'as pliable as possible to their boss's whims'
- CEO of Professor Layton studio Level-5 says staff get big pay rises for correctly answering quizzes about its games
- "I could feel myself coming apart at the seams": Suicide Squad leads on almost leaving the games industry after its failure
2026-07-01 8 stories
- Publisher Krafton finally agrees to pay bonuses to every Subnautica 2 staffer as Unknown Worlds CEO Ted Gill leaves again 10 sources
- GTA 6 developer Rockstar accused of enforcing crunch, weaponising bonus payments, and ignoring a widening gender pay gap 6 sources
- 'I cannot do my job when Microsoft refuses to do theirs', say Xbox union workers as destructive reset looms from a company that spent over $80 billion on AI last year 4 sources
- Star Wars Eclipse Development Is on Track, Says Quantic Dream 2 sources
- Ex-Modern Warfare Creative Strategist Launches New Studio, Pushing Back Against Live Service Trends 2 sources
- Dragon Age setting creator says AI push is a delusion of the executive class that's a 'virulent plague' on games 2 sources
- Developers at a Ubisoft studio have gone on strike in response to the publisher's latest round of sweeping layoffs 2 sources
- UK workers request voluntary union recognition at Rockstar
2026-06-30 4 stories
- GTA 6 developers at Rockstar Games pushing to pursue official union recognition following 2025 sackings: "The union is now stronger than ever" 7 sources
- CWA union says Xbox workers are not "disposable" as layoffs loom 2 sources
- Ubisoft Barcelona staff go on strike over 51 staff being laid off
- Quantic Dream Insists Its Star Wars Eclipse Team Has 'All the Necessary Resources to Complete Its Mission,' Despite Striking Staff Claiming Risk of Cancelation
2026-06-29 5 stories
- Xbox Devs Call For Worker Protections Ahead Of Likely Layoffs 3 sources
- Xbox Ending Contracts With Third-Party Vendors Ahead Of Studio Layoffs 2 sources
- With the Threat of Layoffs Looming, Quantic Dream Staff Say They're Going on Strike to Save Star Wars Eclipse From Cancelation
- Rainbow Six: Siege developers go on strike through July to protest mass layoffs and RTO policies at Ubisoft Barcelona
- Jobs digest: moves at Scopely, Metacore, EA, Roblox, Apple, Zynga, Outfit7, Fateless, more
2026-06-28 1 story
2026-06-27 2 stories
2026-06-26 5 stories
- South of Midnight studio Compulsion Games are allowing staff to openly seek new jobs ahead of possible Xbox layoffs, according to report
- Quantic Dream Strike Aims to Save Star Wars Eclipse Development
- Nintendo Raises Employee Base Salaries by 10%
- Keywords has laid off 128 employees in San Francisco
- D&D and Magic owner Hasbro is reportedly trying to get child actors from Peppa Pig to sign away their voices to AI
2026-06-25 4 stories
- Sony and Bungie lay off "most" of the Destiny 2 team as well as some from Marathon 17 sources
- VR dev Combat Waffle Studios lays off staff
- Peppa Pig Owner Hasbro Faces Backlash After Reportedly Trying to Force Child Actors to Sign Away AI Voice Rights
- Magic: The Gathering Arena developers have successfully unionized
2026-06-24 3 stories
- Atari and MobyGames launch new career development platform called Moby Professional 2 sources
- Magic: The Gathering Arena devs' union officially elected, following claims Wizards of the Coast were dragging their heels on voluntary recognition
- Former Xbox Employees Warn Layoffs Could Be Used for Retaliation
2026-06-23 4 stories
- EA lays off yet another wave of staff in the run up to sale to Saudi Arabia 2 sources
- Ghost Recon Project OVR Scope Cut To Meet New Deadlines
- "This crisis was avoidable, but our bosses chose to drive blindly towards disaster": French videogame union STJV call for national industry strike day
- "A systematic pattern of wage and hour violations": Xbox RPG studio Obsidian is facing a class action lawsuit, denies "each and every allegation"
2026-06-20 3 stories
- Capcom Created a ‘Diana Police’ Team for PRAGMATA 2 sources
- The team behind bullet hell FPS Luna Abyss just got laid off, less than a month after the game's release
- Former Dragon Age writer says AI could make gamedev 'frustrating as hell': 'How are we going to train up the next generation of devs if we eliminate every entry-level task?'
2026-06-19 5 stories
- The Outer Worlds 2 studio Obsidian accused of "violating state wage and hour laws" for profit in California lawsuit
- Pragmata's development team included a group of women known as the "Diana Police" to convincingly capture her child-like innocence
- Kabam consolidating LA office and making layoffs
- Eurogamer is hiring a News Editor
- 11 Bit Studios Lays Off 20 Employees in Company Reorganisation