On Wednesday, Activision declared the end of the music game. What a journey it’s been. In 2008, music-based games generated £1,700 million in retail revenues. The following year, it fell by 50%. Now the Financial Times estimates...

It has been a bad week in AAA-games land. Bizarre Creations up for sale. Budcat closed. LucasArts lays off 50 staff. Ubisoft’s share price falls 22% on the back of weak numbers. Disney and Viacom step back...

Kotaku reports swingeing cuts at LucasArts HQ, with perhaps 60 developers and 25 QA staff believed to have been laid off. Added to the Job Loss Tracker.

Ubisoft has confirmed that Red Storm Entertainment has laid off 38 employees in its North Carolina studio. More details at GamaSutra. Added to the Job Loss Tracker.

GameSpot reports that the largest Australian developer, Krome Studios, is likely to shut down its Adelade studio and put staff at its Brisbourne and Adelaide offices on notice. The company has made a series of redundancies recently...

Another week, another Dundee studio in trouble? I’m hearing rumours that Cohort Studios made 38 people redundant in Dundee last week. The company is working on a PlayStation Move title called The Shoot but doesn’t have projects...

n-Space has had to make 25% of its workforce redundant, with the layoffs affecting 100 developers, according to Kotaku. The company cited “momentary reduced demand” as a result of several projects finishing simultaneously and others being delayed....