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The recruitment agency WN Talents conducted a survey of game studios about the hiring situation. According to the responses received, more than half of the studios experienced a more complicated approval process for hiring budgets over the past year. Marina Lopatina, the business development director of the agency, provided more details about the situation to App2Top
Unknown Worlds has filed a lawsuit against its ex-leaders, Charlie Cleveland, Adam McGuire, and Ted Gill. The allegations include violations of the equity purchase agreement, breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, breach of employment agreement, and breach of the "fiduciary duty of care" in their roles as directors
Microsoft Gaming has once again parted ways with hundreds, if not thousands of employees, reaping the consequences of irresponsible expansion. We delve into the scale of layoffs in the gaming division, as well as the underlying reasons behind these processes. At a crossroads, the company is struggling to figure out how to turn its impressive catalog of IPs into growth
Update 4, July 3, 2025: The Microsoft Gaming division's Bizzard segment is experiencing layoffs, leading to the announcement that the mobile game Warcraft Rumble will cease receiving updates. According to an internal email from president Johanna Faries, which was shared by Aftermath, the game will transition to a "live-ops only" model, akin to the approaches taken with Heroes of the Storm and StarCraft 2