More layoffs.
Another round of layoffs have rocked the video games industry, this time taking place at WWE 2K23, NBA 2K24 and Lego 2K Drive studio Visual Concepts Austin.
It’s unclear how many positions have been culled, though former staff members have taken to social media with news they’ve lost their roles.
Former art manager Brad Bowling took to LinkedIn to say he and a “group of very talented developers” had lost their jobs, adding, “[t]he games industry bloodletting continues.”
A former software engineer named Sydney also took to LinkedIn with the news. “It’s definitely rough,” she wrote, saying she’s one of “several other amazing colleagues” to be laid off.
More than 6,000 layoffs have rocked the video games industry in this year alone. Impacted developers and publishers over 2023 and 2024 include Devolver, Eidos-Montreal, Riot Games, Thunderful, Embracer and Gearbox, Twitch (again), Unity, Codemasters, 505 Games’ Digital Bros, Amazon, Bungie, Media Molecule, Ubisoft, Aussie studio League of Geeks, Versus Evil and many more.
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