Several key Blizzard and Respawn Entertainment developers lost their jobs yesterday. We are talking, among other things, about the leading game designer Diablo IV, who was indirectly involved in the ongoing harassment scandal. Game designer Apex Legends has also resigned from his post. This is due to his statements of 14 years ago, in which racism and sexism were found.Dismissal of the leading game designer of Apex Legends

Alexander Agapitov gave an interview to Medusa about the scandal with the reduction of 150 people. The founder of Xsolla told how the employee performance assessment system works, and what he thinks about criticism of himself. He also explained why he does not consider the incident to be dismissals and is not afraid of inspections against the company.How does the employee evaluation system work?

King CEO Riccardo Zacconi will step down on July 1. He has been in office for more than 16 years.

Video game publisher Electronic Arts has taken on large-scale cuts. 350 employees will leave the company. Layoffs will affect marketing departments, publications and not only.

He goes to work at the Finnish Remedy Entertainment.

Daybreak Game Company, which created H1Z1, EverQuest and Planetside, laid off 70 people. This is 30% of the total staff.

On Friday, layoffs took place in the California company Jam City. The developer did not name the exact number of those dismissed, but an anonymous VentureBeat source claims that “a significant part of employees” lost their positions.

Today, on September 28, it became known that Konstantin Sakhnov, the head of the Rocket Jump gaming department, is leaving the company. He announced this on his official Facebook page.

Again about abbreviations. The publisher of Big Fish Casino and Gummy Drop is going to cut its staff by 15%. He will dismiss not only developers, but also several key figures in management.

The developer of The Walking Dead and The Wolf Among Us is on the verge of closure. The studio fired most of the employees. It is reported that only about 25 people out of 250 will continue to work at Telltale Games. The rest lose their places even without severance pay.

The head of the gaming platform of the social network “Odnoklassniki” left Mail.Ru Group. This was announced by Arthur himself on his Facebook page. In the same place, he stated that he was not voluntarily leaving the post and that he no longer had access to his work contacts.

California studio Blind Squirrel Games has reduced one tenth of its staff due to the sudden cancellation of work on an unnamed project. Blind Squirrel Games is known as the creator of HD remasters for games of the Bioshock and Borderlands series.

California-based video game developer and publisher Daybreak Game Company has laid off an unspecified number of employees. The company is known as the creator of the multiplayer action movie H1Z1 — one of the first popular games in the “battle royale” genre.

Another top manager left the creators of Angry Birds. Senior Vice President for Investor Relations and Relations Rauno Heinonen left his post at Rovio. He joined the company 7 months ago.

Polygon has announced layoffs in the state of the largest streaming platform Twitch. According to the publication, the reduction affected about 25-30 people. Some of those dismissed have worked for the company since its foundation.

Texas-based studio Robot Entertainment has cut more than 30 people. The company explained this decision with the task to focus on the development of one title and not to disperse forces on several projects.

The French mobile publisher Gameloft continues to close foreign offices. A month ago, the company liquidated a branch in New Orleans, and recently it became known about the termination of the work of the division in Madrid.

The Finnish company Rovio has closed a branch in the capital of the UK and dismissed its staff of 7 people. The London office lasted a little over a year.

In the German Wooga again layoffs. The company has decided to focus on the development of games with a plot and, in this regard, is conducting a complete restructuring.