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The developer behind Fifa World Cup - which launched less than two months ago - has laid off 85% of its staff

A vast number of developers at Refractor Games, the development team responsible for Fifa World Cup: Launch Edition, have been laid off. In total, roughly 85 percent of developers at the studio have lost their jobs.

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Eurogamer ·13 days ago

Indie game bundle saving buyers over $1,000 in support of laid off developers has raised over $100,000 in three days

An indie game bundle aimed at helping laid off video game developers has raised over $100,000 in a matter of days. This bundle, which you can find on itch.

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Gamesradar ·17 days ago

Tom Holland says Marvel already have a plan for him passing the baton as Spider-Man: "It's laid out"

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Pcgamer ·21 days ago

Ubisoft says the Black Flag remake has exceeded 'annual expectations' in just two weeks, shortly after it laid off a number of the people who made it

Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced, a game with a title that feels like it ought to have a colon or an em dash somewhere in there, is finally here and it's selling like whatever the nautical equivalent of hotcakes is.

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Gamesradar ·last mo.

Destiny 2 isn't fully dead yet: community manager says the devs who weren't laid off are still working on "maintenance/upkeep" and "a small fix could sneak in here or there"

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Pcgamer ·last mo.

The team behind bullet hell FPS Luna Abyss just got laid off, less than a month after the game's release

When PC Gamer senior editor Wes Fenlon wrote about Luna Abyss last month, he said it left him "already hoping for more of its kind.

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Gamesradar ·2 mo. ago

Dev releases one of the year's best shooters, entire team is laid off less than a month later: "A decision that was completely outside of our control"

On May 21, 2026, relatively unknown studio Kwalee Labs launched its cosmic horror bullet hell shooter Luna Abyss after seven long years of development.

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Eurogamer ·2 mo. ago

Ubisoft is reportedly closing two studios and restructuring another, with around 380 people expected to be laid off

Two of Ubisoft's smaller studios, Ubisoft Winnipeg, and Ubisoft Belgrade, are being shuttered. Insider Gaming was first to break the news, but reports from Game Developer, and VGC have shed more light on the broader…