Tag: Layoffs

Sony Mobile Announces 1,000 Layoffs
The late summer layoffs just keep coming. Sure, it was expected that RIM would be laying off...
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Sony Announces it Will Close Studio Liverpool
It seems to be that time of year in the gaming industry. It's the calm before the storm of the holiday shopping season, and titles simply aren't being released. Studio heads are...
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PopCap Games Announces Reorganization and Layoffs
PopCap today announced that it has begun a reorganization of its studios that includes a "reduction in force" in North America. More specifically, around 50 employees, most from t...
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OnLive Re-formed as Half Its Staff is Re-hired
Just before the weekend began last Friday, rumors about OnLive began to...
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OnLive Reported to Have Laid Off its Entire Staff [Rumor]
[UPDATE] Gamasutra is confirming that all OnLive employees have been laid off. [ORIGIN...
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Google Announces 4,000 Motorola Mobility Layoffs
Late summer's layoffs in the mobile sector are set to continue. Google has announced that i...
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3,000 RIM Layoffs Coming Next Week
Today it was revealed that Research in Motion (RIM), the company behind the BlackBerry line of products, will be laying off 3,000 employees starting next week. Boy Genius Report...
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Sega Shuts Down its Australian, French, and German Offices
Sega announced today that it would be shutting down its offices in Australia, France, Germany, Spain, and Benelux (made up of Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxembourg). The company di...
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RIM Trims the Fat with Substantial Job Cuts as they Struggle to Stay in Business
Research in Motion (RIM) has been struggling for awhile, and has definitely lost its foothold in the marketplace giving way to increasingly popular iOS and Android devices. Whi...
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Game Industry Rallies Together To Find Jobs For Laid Off 38 Studios Employees
I've been hesitant to cover the recent news regarding Curt Schilling's 38 Studios and Big Huge Games, developers of the excellent Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, and the state of Rh...
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Sony to cut 10,000 Jobs In Turn Around Effort
In an effort to overcome an operating loss of $2.9 billion, Sony has announced that they are cutting 10,000 jobs. This cut amounts to nearly 6% of it's overall workforce. Japanese...
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Yahoo Chief Product Officer Quits
Although Yahoo Inc. has not made an official announcement on the matter, it has been reported that...
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Sega Streamlining Operations And Cutting Games
It looks as though SEGA might just be on it's last leg as a developer with clout in the gaming industry. Today it was...
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AT&T Slams Feds Using T-Mobile Layoffs
In a statement from Jim Cicconi, AT&T Senior EVP of External and Legislative Affairs, posted on AT&T’s poli...
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AOL To Cut 50 Jobs
According to the Wall Street Journal, AOL plans to cut up to 50 jobs fr...
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