GamaSutra reports that Real Networks is undergoing the second reorganisation in three months. The company has shut down its internal development studio as well as reducing a number of management layers. Real continues to run the games...

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Sega has confirmed that it has made 73 staff redundant in its London and San Francisco offices. Headcount has been reduced by 36 in San Francisco and 37 in London, representing about 12% of Sega West’s workforce....

Another one I missed. It’s from 8th April, 2010 Canadian developer Slant Six, which has made three SOCOM titles for Sony, has announced “temporary layoffs”, according to GamaSpot. Call me cynical,but redundancies being “temporary” doesn’t sound very...

GI.biz reports that Net-IB reports that (as translated by Web forum NeoGAF), Cing may have gone into bankruptcy on 1 March. GI.biz describes the company as “A small studio with less than 30 staff. Cing was founded...

GAME Group has announced plans to lay off 247 staff in 43 stores across the country. In an official statement to Edge Online, GAME said: “We regularly review our entire store portfolio, including our concessions, to maximise...

Activision has made a swathe of cuts across its development studios, according to the LA Times: Luxoflux, acquired by Activision in 2002, is being shut down. The studio, which employs about 56 people in Santa Monica, worked...