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Skillsearch surveyed 1,000 games professionals from Nov. 12, 2025 to Feb. 24, 2026; 44% considered leaving the industry because of redundancies and 22% were laid off in the past 12 months.

Iron Galaxy announced another round of layoffs on Apr. 17, and Kotaku reports the cuts could affect up to 90 employees after the studio shipped Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4.

The Quiet Things trailer was removed from the Apr. 17 BAFTA Games Awards showcase after BAFTA said it could not sufficiently warn guests about triggering themes, according to Kotaku.

Newzoo’s PC & Console Gaming Report 2026, cited by PC Gamer, says titles ranked 21+ grew from 48% to 56% of Western PC revenue in 2025. The r/pcgaming post had 353 points and 56 comments at crawl time.

Rec Room said in a March 30, 2026 blog post that it will shut down the platform at noon Pacific on June 1. GeekWire notes that the social gaming company once carried a 3.5 billion dollar valuation, but even with more than 150 million players over its lifetime, it could not turn that scale into a sustainable business.

PC Gamer reports Jeff Kaplan says escalating revenue demands around Overwatch League and pressure from Activision Blizzard leadership pulled resources away from the game and contributed directly to his eventual departure.

A games journalist who was set to review Resident Evil 9 for Videogamer.com has publicly spoken out after being replaced by AI, sparking broader discussion about artificial intelligence displacing human writers in games media.

TiMi Montreal, a Tencent-backed AAA open-world game studio founded in 2021, has quietly shut down without ever releasing or officially announcing a single title.

A fast-rising r/Games thread on 2026-02-19 cites Jason Schreier and Bloomberg reporting that PlayStation is shutting down Bluepoint Games. The post is being treated as a major first-party studio restructuring signal.