Industry-focused news tracking studio closures, publisher insolvencies (like Nacon), and developer layoffs.
Ubisoft’s upcoming Assassin’s Creed Hexe has lost yet another key leader, with game director Benoit Richer leaving the company to co-found a new indie studio, Servo Games, in Quebec. It’s the second director-level exit tied to Hexe in just a few months, and it lands at a moment when the project is…
Ubisoft’s already-mysterious Assassin’s Creed Codename Hexe just took another very public hit: game director Benoit Richer has departed the company, only months after the project also lost creative director Clint Hocking. Richer is heading to Servo Games as a game director, framing the move as the…
A new legal fight is erupting inside MindsEye developer Build a Rocket Boy—and it’s not about patches, performance, or post-launch content. Staff represented by the IWGB Game Workers Union have initiated legal action after alleging the studio installed Teramind monitoring software on employee…
Iron Galaxy Studios has confirmed another round of layoffs, saying it’s adopting a “new posture” to treat today’s market realities as permanent—not a temporary slump the industry can simply wait out. The Chicago-based developer, known for high-profile porting and support work (including assistance…
Take-Two Interactive—the publisher behind Rockstar Games and 2K, and the parent company that also owns Zynga—has quietly but significantly reduced the team it built to research and deploy artificial intelligence across its business. The most notable cut: Luke Dicken, Take-Two’s Head of Artificial…
The canceled standalone multiplayer project set in the The Last of Us universe was far deeper into development than most fans ever realized. Former Naughty Dog director Vinit Agarwal says the game was roughly 80% complete, “very, very close to done,” and performing “really, really well internally”…
Epic Games is facing a brutal backlash after its recent round of layoffs—more than 1,000 jobs cut—swept up an employee whose family says he’s fighting terminal brain cancer and lost life insurance as a result. After the story spread widely online, Epic CEO Tim Sweeney publicly responded that the…
Eidos-Montréal — the storied studio behind Deus Ex and a key contributor to the modern Tomb Raider era — has announced a major workforce reduction impacting 124 employees, alongside the departure of Head of Studio David Anfossi. The news lands as yet another gut-punch in a games industry that can’t…
A brutal human story has erupted out of Epic Games’ recent mass layoffs: Mike Prinke, a longtime Epic employee currently undergoing treatment for terminal brain cancer, was among the more than 1,000 people let go—and his family says the cut also meant losing his life insurance at the worst possible…
Bethesda is pulling the plug on The Elder Scrolls: Blades this summer, with the game’s servers set to permanently shut down on June 30, 2026. Once that happens, Blades will be inaccessible, ending the run of Bethesda’s free-to-play Elder Scrolls mobile spin-off across platforms, including the…
