Brash Entertainment has made 20 employees redundant. The company raised $400 million to make games based on movies, but its first titles – Alvin and the Chipmunks, Jumper, Space Chimps – all flopped. Twenty staff have been...

THQ has today announced a restructuring plan that will lead to the loss of 250 jobs. The bulk of the redundancies will occur in product development. Added to the GameOverZone.

Wild Tangent is shutting its internal development studio, with the loss of 2o jobs. CEO and Founder Alex St John is also stepping aside. Mike Peronto will become CEO leaving St John as chairman and evangelist for...

Citing the “uncertain economic climate”, John Riccitiello, CEO of EA, today announced that EA will be reducing headcount by approximately 6% (600 people by our estimates) by the end of March 2009. The redundancies are expected to...

According to Develop, Swedish developer Avalanche has just laid off 77 staff following the cancellation of 2 major projects worth $34 million. The company continues to work on Just Cause 2 for Eidos and co-production with Emote...

Diner Dash creator Gamelab has made ten of its 25 staff redundant. The company is now focused exclusively on Gamestar Mechanic, a “multiplayer online game for kids that lets them create games”. Added to the Job Loss...

Kotaku reports that Canadian developer Silicon Knights has laid off 26 workers. In an official statement, Silicon Knights says it has “temporarily” laid off the employees as they ramp up on other projects. In effect, this looks...