Microsoft continues to make good on its promise to cut 5,000 jobs. Following the 1,400 job losses earlier this year (with many redundancies in Microsoft’s games division), Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft has announced where the hammer...

Empire Interactive has gone into administration, following abortive attempts by KPMG to find a buyer. The company, owned by Silverstar, is best known for the Flatout series of games. Added to the Job Loss Tracker. UPDATE: GamaSutra...

I spent too long over Easter playing with php and mysql, but the Job Loss Tracker is now fully interactive. Want to know how many American development jobs were lost in 2008? How about British publishers in...

I’m no expert on Japanese redundancies, but Anime News Network is reporting that Marvelous Entertainment is asking for 20 of its employees to voluntarily retire. Marvelous, best known in the West for Harvest Moon, had 120 employees...

Some people think it’s in bad taste; the majority seem to think it’s pretty cool. Personally, I think it’s incredibly damaging to the perception of business at a time when, frankly, we need to remember that business...

Red Faction and Saints Row developer Volition has made 86 QA staff redundant as part of THQ’s wider cutbacks, according to GamesIndustry.biz. 86 of the 102 people in the QA department will be let go, and QA...

TechCrunch reports that 100 jobs are going at Fox Interactive Media, the web arm of News Corp. So far, it looks as if the business units affected are Photobucket, MySpace, Scout Media, Rotten Tomatoes, and corporate, leaving...