RuneScape? Rune-escape!

Jagex reported profit growth for the seventh year in a row at the end of 2022, four years after shutting down RuneScape Classic, ending a 17-year-old run. The studio was then acquired by private equity firms CVC Capital and Haveli Investments in February 2024. A month later, CEO Phil Mansell departed the studio after eight years. CVC Capital advisor and Jagex board member Jon Bellami then took helm of the studio.

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Days Gone and so are 40 employees: when the multiplayer version was scrapped, PlayStation cut the funding for Bend Studio.

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According to IGN, Build a Rocket Boy launched the 45 days consultation after the failure of MindsEye.

The reason is purely legal: in the UK such a move is required before firing over 100 people. In total, the company has about 300 workers in the UK and 200 more in other locations.

Such a big studio was initially created to make a Roblox/UEFN competitor. The project was called Everywhere, but it's apparently dead on arrival. What's left of it was included into MindsEye.

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Hytale by Hypixel Studios is cancelled and the studio will be closed.

A long-awaited RPG in Minecraft aesthetic is officially dead after six years of development.

The studio was previously acquired by Riot Games, so it's their initiative to cut some costs.

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Sad shit: Microsoft is doing its FOURTH major series of layoffs during the last 18 months...

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As it was previously told, Microsoft has begun firing people (again). It has about 20 000 people in gaming divisions and want to cut this workforce by thousands.

King, Bethesda, and many other companies are among these cuts. It's the fourth big wave of layoffs in the last 18 months.

The total cut among Microsoft's teams (beyond gaming) is expected to be around 9100 employees out of 228 000. They were already planning to cut 7000 people in May (and it's unclear if these are two cuts or an extension).

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And here's the email from Phil Spencer: yeah, we make more money than ever, but it's all possible thanks to firing people who previously did a great job and helped us to establish this foothold in the industry. Very ugly phrasing, IMO.

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Romero Games lost funding, Microsoft used to be their publisher (which wasn't announced before).

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This is brilliant

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If you've been fired from Microsoft, just use their AI to control your emotions...

Microsoft has loudly embraced AI, having announced plans in January to invest $80 billion into AI infrastructure prior to this latest wave of job cuts.

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Wargaming shuts down its fairly new game Steel Hunters and laying off stuff... the game lived in beta since April 2, 2025.

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Do you remember the unsinkable Nokia? Intel lost its place among top-10 chipmakers and will have to fire even more people.

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Seattle-based startup Rec Room, once valued at $3.5 billion, is laying off about half of its staff in a sweeping restructuring.

Co-founders Cameron Brown and Nick Fajt announced the layoffs Monday in a blog post, calling it “one of the toughest choices in Rec Room history.”

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