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...

Developer of Sacred Ascaron has filed for bankruptcy protection in the German courts. The company said that 94 staff worked on Sacred 2, so I’m estimating the staff size at 100 for now. Pessimistically, I am not...

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...

Crush Digital appears to have gone bust before it released its first game. GamesIndustry.biz reports that the Nottingham studio has appointed Cameron Gunn of ReSolve Partners as administrator. (You may remember him from the recent administration of...

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...