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January

• Archiact lets go of ‘a number’ of staff ^[source]
• Unity Software to cut roughly 1,800 jobs in ‘company reset’ ^[source]
• Twitch to cut 500 employees, about 35% of staff ^[source]
• Behaviour Interactive lays off around 45 people ^[source]
• Playtika cutting 300-400 jobs in new round of layoffs ^[source]
• Discord is laying off 170 employees, 17% of staff ^[source]
• PTW (formerly Pole To Win) lays off 45 staff across global teams ^[source]
• Lost Boys Interactive lays off ‘approximately 125’ employees ^{[source] [source]}
• Funselektor lays off 3 developers ^[source]
• Netspeak Games making ‘approximately 25’ roles redundant ^[source]
• Thunderful Group restructuring to cut about 100 employees, 20% of its workforce ^[source]
• Pixelberry Studios has laid off 120 employees ^{[source] [source]}
• Wimo Games shuts down, laying off all 35 employees ^[source]
• CI Games lays off ‘approximately 10%’ of staff ^[source]
• 31st Union lays off ‘small number’ of staff ^[source]
• Com2uS lays off ‘a two-digit number’ of employees ^[source]
• NCSoft axes subsidiary Ntreev Soft, laying off all 70 employees ^[source]
• Netmarble subsidiary Metaverse World lays off about 70 people ^[source]
• Riot Games eliminates ‘about 530’ roles, ~11% of workforce ^[source]
• One Player Mission closes, laying off all 15 employees ^[source]
• People Can Fly lays off more than 30 employees ^[source]
• Black Forest Games lays off roughly 50 people, ~50% of workforce ^[source]
• Microsoft lays off 1,900 staff from its video game workforce ^[source]
• Reikon Games lays off about 60-70 people, around 80% of staff ^[source]
• Little Red Dog Games closes its doors, laying off all 27 staff ^[source]
• Eidos-Montréal hit by Embracer restructuring, letting go of 97 staff ^[source]
• Chief Rebel lays off around 21 people ^[source]
• Sega of America to lay off 61 employees ^[source]
• Nimble Giant Entertainment lays off roughly 30 people ^[source]
• Artificer lays off 28 people ^[source]
• Airship Syndicate lays off 12 people ^[source]

February

• Threaks shuts down, lays off entire staff of 25 people ^[source]
• Crop Circle Games allegedly furloughs around 50 staff ^{[source] [source]}
• Threshold Games closes its doors, laying off all 11 staff ^[source]
• 91Act lays off entire studio — besides founder and CEO — around 60 people ^{[source] [source]}
• Visual Concepts Austin lays off around 9 people ^[source]
• Hidden Path Entertainment lays off 44 people ^[source]
• Daybreak Games hit by layoffs, an unknown number impacted ^[source]
• Scopely downsizes projects, approximately 15 staff “may not find mutual role fits” ^[source]
• ZA/UM to lay off around 24 employees, around a quarter of staff ^[source]
• Build a Rocket Boy lays off an unknown number of staff globally ^[source]
• Disruptive Games lays off an unknown number of staff ^[source]
• Gameloft is laying off at least 38 staff in Ukraine and Canada ^[source]
• Electronic Arts cutting “small number” of staff as it sunsets two mobile games ^[source]
• Supermassive Games set to lay off roughly 90 workers ^{[source] [source]}
• Die Gute Fabrik halts production due to lack of funding, 10 staff looking for new roles ^[source]
• Sony Interactive Entertainment lays off about 900 people, 8% of global staff ^[source]
• Deck Nine Games lays off around 30 people, around 20% of total workforce ^{[source] [source]}
• Electronic Arts cutting around 670 roles, around 5% of workforce ^[source]

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