Melissa Heidrich of PassionFruit Games conducted an interview with GameJobHunter to talk about her experience with being victim to a layoff in the video game industry, and how she and her team have started up their own video game studio. GJH: What are some of the most important things to start thinking about if you’re [...]
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It’s been a crazy couple of weeks in the game industry. First, we had the news last week that EA was laying off 1500 of its employees worldwide. Then, we had the news today that EA was shutting down Pandemic. If you’re an industry veteran, I’d almost bet money that you knew someone that was [...]
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Sad news this week from 2 major developers – both Maxis and Raven reported sizable staff cuts were made. Raven apparently laid off about 1/3 (they were at 180 employees) of its staff, and Activision has commented that the studio is scaling back to only having 2 games in development at any given time. Shacknews [...]
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This is a sobering article from Gamasutra – they estimate that around 6300 North American video game developers have been laid off and are on the hunt for a new job. The past year has seen big developers shedding jobs and studios shutting their doors, despite the continual drum beat from just about everyone that [...]
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