2025 may not be kind to game developers

[Scott_Arm]

I'm sure there have been other stories already, but looks like Unity did some layoffs this morning.

Breaking: Unity Lays Off a Number of Developers With a 5 AM Email

Apparently, the entire Unity Behavior team was cut, alongside many other employees.

80.lv

 

[Dominik D]

Yeah, here's my ex-employer.

Sumo Group Business Update

Sumo Group Business Update

www.sumogroupltd.com

 

[Dominik D]

Crytek lays off 15% as well.

Crytek laying off 15 percent of workforce and placing Crysis 4 on hiatus

The company intends to focus on expanding extraction shooter Hunt: Showdown 1896.

www.gamedeveloper.com

 

[trinibwoy]

Wow Crytek only has 400 employees. It always amazes me to see that these studios are so small. Big firms regularly throw hundreds of highly paid engineers at bullshit software projects that are nowhere near the complexity of a game. Talk about inefficient allocation of resources.

 

[Scott_Arm]

Warner Bros. closes Monolith Productions and MultiVersus studio, cancels Wonder Woman game

There’s big shake-up at WB Games after a dismal year

www.polygon.com

The hits keep on coming.

 

[Johnny Awesome]

Why is WB testing concepts with AAA budgets while not green lighting a new AAA Arkham game?

Suicide Squad and Gotham Knights should have been AA experiments.

 

[Malo]

Why is WB testing concepts with AAA budgets while not green lighting a new AAA Arkham game?

Suicide Squad and Gotham Knights should have been AA experiments.

Spend much more money on live service games where the potential is 10x, 100x return on investment from massive ongoing transactions instead of hoping to break even.

 

[Johnny Awesome]

Didn't work out that way though did it?