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Sega layoffs hit publishing arm – 73 jobs lost

April 22, 2010

Sega has confirmed that it has made 73 staff redundant in its London and San Francisco offices. Headcount has been reduced by 36 in San Francisco and 37 in London, representing about 12% of Sega West’s workforce. The Sega layoffs were confirmed in an interview with IndustryGamers. Sega will be reorganising to drive all digital [...]

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Slant Six makes temporary layoffs

April 10, 2010

Another one I missed. It’s from 8th April, 2010 Canadian developer Slant Six, which has made three SOCOM titles for Sony, has announced “temporary layoffs”, according to GamaSpot. Call me cynical,but redundancies being “temporary” doesn’t sound very likely in this current environment. Added to the Job Loss Tracker.

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Nintendo Developer Cing goes bankrupt

March 8, 2010

GI.biz reports that Net-IB reports that (as translated by Web forum NeoGAF), Cing may have gone into bankruptcy on 1 March. GI.biz describes the company as “A small studio with less than 30 staff. Cing was founded in 1999. Its debut title was the Japan and Europe-only release Glass Rose for Capcom.” Added to the [...]

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GAME cuts 43 stores, makes 247 staff redundant

March 1, 2010

GAME Group has announced plans to lay off 247 staff in 43 stores across the country. In an official statement to Edge Online, GAME said: “We regularly review our entire store portfolio, including our concessions, to maximise the opportunities to reach customers while also ensuring that the business is running as effectively as possible. As [...]

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Activision culls up to 400 jobs

February 15, 2010

Activision has made a swathe of cuts across its development studios, according to the LA Times: Luxoflux, acquired by Activision in 2002, is being shut down. The studio, which employs about 56 people in Santa Monica, worked on movie-based games aimed at casual audiences such as Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen NeverSoft, the developer of [...]

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GAME to lose 80 back office jobs?

February 9, 2010

GamesIndustry.biz reports that GAME Group is consolidating its GameStation business with the potential loss of 80 jobs. The company has been moving to combine the York-based operations of GameStation with the Basingstoke head office of GAME. According to GI.biz, “The company is to move its call centre and refurbishment facility in York to Basingstoke, with [...]

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Redundancy round-up

February 4, 2010

I’ve been very slow at reporting on job losses in the games industry for a while. That’s what happens when you get crazy busy working for clients, while also working on a very exciting secret project for the game development scene. (Well, I think it’s exciting). So, as a bit of a downer, here are [...]

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Tagged with: aspyr, catalis, closures, crispy gamer, deep silver, dr studios, harmonix, job loss tracker, koch media, kuju, layoffs, mtv, nostromo, red 5 games, redundancies, sony, thq

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