Analytics: in 2023, gaming companies laid off more than 10 thousand people

The year 2023 was remembered by the gaming industry for massive cuts. The wave of layoffs affected both indie studios and corporations: Embracer Group, CD PROJEKT, Ubisoft, Telltale Games, Blackbird Interactive, Ascendant Studios and many other video game-related companies announced layoffs. According to the portal videogamelayoffs.com Since January, 10,466 specialists have lost their jobs.

In total, 162 rounds of layoffs took place in gaming companies over the year. Most of all in November — 20. The least in March is six.

Top 5 companies with the largest number of laid-off employees, according to videogamelayoffs.com:

1. Unity — 1165 people;
2. ByteDance — 1000 people;
3. Embracer Group — 954 people;
4. Epic Games — 830 people;
5. Amazon Games — 751 people.

Important: the creator of the portal Farhan Noor notes that the statistics show approximate figures. Some of the data is taken from official announcements, some from the media and social networks. In his opinion, in reality, there may be much more dismissed developers, since not all companies advertise layoffs.