Midway has cut 180 jobs, representing 25% of global headcount. The company will close its Austin development studio and make redundancies in Chicago, San Diego and Austin. The layoffs follow a headcount reduction of 90 in August...

Entertainment UK (usually known as EUK) is no longer being seeking buyers as a going concern and will be closed, according to administrators Deloitte. 700 staff have been made redundant immediately, with 375 staff retained. The decision...

I have just attended one of the most august conferences I have ever seen. Hosted by Paul Gardner of Osborne Clarke and Paul Heydon of Avista Partners, the Interactive Entertainment Conference hosted a wealth of games industry...

Video games distributor Pinnacle Entertainment has been placed into administration. BDO Stoy Hayward have been appointed as administrators and immediately made 94 staff redundant. Added to the Job Loss Tracker.

As part of a restructuring that sees Dutch firm Hermans take an equity stake, Mastertonic has laid off five staff. Added to the Job Loss Tracker.

I blogged earlier in the year about the dangers Eidos was running by launching Tomb Raider Underworld so close to Thanksgiving: the late release date gave no room for slippage and ran the risk that it would...

Lycos Europe is going to shut down at the end of 2008. It’s a sad day for me personally, because I was the equity research analyst who worked on the IPO of Lycos at the height of...