GamaSutra is reporting that Washington-based Aces Studio has seen substantial layoffs as part of Microsoft’s restructuring. Aces Studio is responsible for MS Flight Simulator, one of the longest-running franchises in the games industry. The studio is also...

Develop reports that Eidos has closed its Rockpool Studios in Manchester. The company was acquired in 2007 to bolster Eidos’s activities in casual and mobile. Arguably Rockpool didn’t fit into Eidos’s new studio-led, IP-centric strategy and is...

It’s been a hard week in the technology sector: Sony announced it would make an operating loss of $3 billion in the year to March 2009 which, suggests the FT, means that the company is bleeding about...

Sega has confirmed that 30 employees will be let go from the North American division. GigaOm has further details. 30 more jobs added to the JobLossTracker.

MCV reports that Australian games distributor Red Ant has called in the administrators. It is not clear how many jobs have been lost or at risk. It joins UK distributors EUK and Pinnacle in the GameOverZone.

Today is the formal launch of Gamesbrief. It’s an exciting and terrifying moment. The site has been in beta for several weeks, and before that it was just my personal ramblings at www.nicholaslovell.com. Now it is on...

AMD has announced that it will reduce headcount by 1,100, of which 900 will be redundancies and 200 will come from “natural attrition”. It also sold its handheld chip unit to Qualcomm for $65 million. The chip...