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.

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...

Joystiq reports that Mythic Online has laid off a number of staff including 21 customer service employees, half of QA and all of the playtest group. The job losses are not added to the GameOverZone as they...

Following the news that sales of Tomb Raider Underworld disappointed, Kotaku reports that Eidos has made 30 staff redundant at developer Crystal Dynamics. The redundancies are added to the GameOverZone.

Gusto Games has closed its Derby studio, making all 14 staff redundant. The layoffs don’t affect Gusto’s main office in Banbury. 14 jobs added to the Job Loss Tracker.