Video Game Industry Layoffs 2025. Video game maker activision blizzard inc. Roughly 8,500 video game industry workers were laid off in 2022, according to a layoff tracker created by video game artist farhan noor.

Regrettably, within the first month of 2025, more than 5,000 workers in the games industry have already experienced job losses. In january 2025 alone, kotaku reports that over 6,000 developers have already been laid off.