Industry December 3, 2015 RockYou fires 10% of the American team RockYou, the publisher of mobile and social games, announced a staff reduction in the American branch. 23 people or 10% of the company’s team in the USA will lose their place.
Industry August 26, 2015 Rovio goes for restructuring and dismisses 260 employees The creators of the Angry Birds series have announced the beginning of a restructuring of their business, in which the company plans to lay off up to 260 people.
Industry July 22, 2015 GREE International is laying off a third of its employees GREE International is forced to reduce its staff by 30%. This is written by the Venturebeat resource with reference to information from the director of the production company Andrew Sheppard (Andrew Sheppard).
Industry March 14, 2014 PopCap breaks up with employees The studio that created Plants vs. Zombies, Peggle and Bejeweled has laid off 30 employees.
Industry April 3, 2013 Zynga got rid of the head of OMGPOP “They spent too much on acquiring users,” said analyst Michael Patcher in connection with the dismissal of Dan Porter as chief executive of Zynga New York.
Other January 30, 2013 The main game designer left Zynga Employees continue to leave Zynga. According to the Polygon news site, Brian Reynolds, the chief game designer at Mark Pinkus’ company, recently left it.
Other August 22, 2012 Layoffs at PopCap Games PopCap Games is reorganizing, within which about 50 people will be laid off. It seems that even successful developers are sometimes forced to make, as they say, “unpopular” decisions.