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Some media outlets compared the 2023-2024 layoffs to the video game crash of 1983, when the US video game market collapsed due to an oversaturation of poorly made, low-quality games, causing the video game industry to enter a recession for two years. This has sparked discussions about a potential "second video game crash."
On July 26, 2024, SAG-AFTRA (Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists) initiated a labor strike involving the union’s voice actors and motion capture artists against American video game companies signed to the union’s Interactive Media Agreements over failed renegotiation terms of the contract that had expired in November 2022.
In the video game industry, 2024 saw job losses that continued from 2023, including large cuts from Microsoft Gaming, Electronic Arts, and Sony Interactive Entertainment, with nearly 15,000 jobs cut through the entire year.
Layoffs.fyi, a website that dutifully tracks job cutting, shows that 263,000 tech employees were cut in 2023 alone. Only 11 days into 2024, there have been 24 tech companies that have laid off a ...
The media and entertainment industry's reckoning will continue in 2024 with more layoffs ... and others commit to job cuts in 2024. Alexandra Canal. February 27, 2024 at 2:40 PM ... Cam Jurgens ...
Microsoft recently announced that it was laying off 10,000 workers to trim costs. On the same day, Amazon began its wave of 18,000 job cuts. Other tech companies -- including Meta, Salesforce ...
2023 saw more layoffs than previous years, with 240,000 jobs cut in the tech industry alone -- a 50% jump from the prior year, according to data from TechCrunch.com. A number of factors led to ...
It seems the 2024 layoffs may be a continuation of layoffs in 2023. It depends on how sources describe it, but it may be worth expanding the scope to extend from 2023-2024 if sources consider it one event. Game industry layoffs may be a part of broader tech sector layoffs. I read some articles that described it as such. Consider exploring that ...