The video game industry’s string of layoffs continues: Digital Bros. Entertainment and Kongregate have each introduced job cuts.
Digital Bros., which owns Control writer 505 Games and different studios, is shedding 30% of its workforce — roughly 130 folks — as half of an “organization review,” it introduced Tuesday. The job losses will largely influence Digital Bros.’ studios, in response to a information launch. Beyond 505 Games, Digital Bros. Entertainment owns DR Studios (Terraria for cell and console), Kunos Simulazioni (Assetto Corsa), Infinity Plus Two (Puzzle Quest 3), Supernova Games, Nesting Games, Avantgarden (Last Day of June) and Ingame Studios (Crime Boss: Rockay City).
Kongregate, the on-line gaming portal and writer, has lower greater than a dozen jobs throughout a number of departments. Kongregate has not responded to Polygon’s request for remark. The layoffs span a number of departments, together with artwork, VFX, advertising, neighborhood administration, and manufacturing. It’s been a difficult few years for Kongregate, which made a reputation for itself in the early 2000s as the on-line portal for Flash video games. When Adobe dropped Flash assist for good in 2020, Kongregate needed to shift towards preserving its Flash video games.
In July 2020, Kongregate introduced it was now not accepting user-created video games, because it moved towards its personal inside improvement. At that point, it laid off a number of folks to “reshape” the firm. One individual laid off by Kongregate instructed Polygon it got here as a complete shock.
Three video game studios have laid off staff in as many days: Amazon’s gaming division introduced layoffs on Monday. More than 180 folks have been lower from Amazon’s Crown Channel and Game Growth applications as the firm “refocuses” on Prime Gaming, in response to a employees memo despatched by Amazon Games vp Christoph Hartmann. Humble Games, which publishes video video games like Coral Island and Mineko’s Night Market, additionally laid off an unknown quantity of staffers this week, it confirmed to GLHF. Over the previous 12 months, greater than 6,000 folks have been laid off in the video game industry, in response to a layoff monitoring web site.
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