Disney has announced 50 layoffs in its US development team, according to Develop. Vancouver studio Propaganda is to lay off 30 staff Two Utah-based studios, Avalanche and Fall Line, are to consolidate with the loss of 20...

Develop reports that Kuju is cutting back staff as part of a ‘more cautious approach to the start of 2009’. 10 jobs are identified as at-risk at Brighton Studio Zoe Mode with other jobs lost at Kuju...

MMO publisher Nexon has shut its Vancouver Studio with immediate effect. The studio, also known as Humanature and headed by Relic co-founder Alex Garden, employed 90 staff, all of whom have been made redundant. Korean publisher Nexon...

GAME is likely to lose 80 jobs as it rationalises its head offices after the acquisition of GameStation, according to MCV. “A consultation process affecting up to 80 roles has now begun”. In my experience, those 80...

More troubles in the technology sector as Philips has announced plans to reduce headcount by 6,000 by the end of 2009, according to MCV. Philips reduced its exposure to speculative ventures in October last year when it...

6,000 jobs are to go at Intel, according to MCV. The redundancies will affect facilities in Malaysia, the Philippines and two in the US (in Oregon and California.) Added to the GameOverZone.

Kotaku has unearthed a US Department of Labor injunction alleging that Sensory Sweep has not paid its staff $2 million in back pay. With over three months pay owing, and an injunction preventing the shipping of a...