Another very sad news came today. After Playstation Electronic Arts He is also making a layoff.
One of the biggest companies in the gaming world Electronic Arts, announced today that it will lay off more than 670 employees. The company, which has more than 13,400 employees, has shelved some games with this step. Before this, it was announced that PlayStation would part ways with 900 different people globally. In this context, the PlayStation studio in London, which has been responsible for the production of many virtual reality (VR) games recently, is also being closed. Regarding the process, Jim Ryan, the head of the PlayStation world, said in the internal e-mail he sent to employees: “After careful consideration and much discussion over several months, it became clear that changes were needed to continue to grow the business and improve the company.” said. Before this, Microsoft laid off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees. He bought the company Activision Blizzard after a very long effort and paid a huge amount of money. Microsoft, parted ways with 1,900 people from the company it took under its umbrella, as well as from its Xbox division. This step of Microsoft, which has a total of 22 thousand employees, is not the only layoff the company has made recently. By the way, he is the president of Blizzard as part of the layoff Mike Ybarra He decided to leave the company (This was seen as a huge loss), in addition, a survival game Blizzard was working on was also canceled.
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If before Twitch announced that they would part ways with 500 employees. It is also reported that the major game company Riot Games will part ways with its 530 employees. was transferred. The company, which sends approximately 11 percent of its total workforce, said in a statement on this subject: “We are not getting the return we expected from some of the important investments we made.” said. There were many layoffs at the end of 2023, and it was really sad that this was carried over to 2024.
BREAKING: PlayStation is laying off around 900 people across the world, the latest cut in a brutal 2024 for the video game industry
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