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Company behind Fiesta online reduced to core team and may be dissolved

In a surprise move, Gameloft has shut down its Hyderabad studio, resulting in a loss of around 200 jobs. An inside source has told MCV that employees were informed of the closure on Tuesday. They were then asked to pack up and vacate the office and not report to work …

250 out of work as company boasts of revenue growth

The closure of the Jersey tax loophole last year has been blamed for the end of Play.com as we know it. The retailer has confirmed that it will from March 2013 become a marketplace-only service, allowing customers to sell goods via their site with Play taking a slice, much like …

Support to continue on card battle game Ayakashi but three other titles dropped

Eurocom, the British developer behind the latest James Bond game, has gone into administration. The developer, based in Derby, made150 redundancies last monthfollowing a number of cancelled console projects. Its remaining 50 staff were told this morning that they had been laid off. Eurocom issued a statement toEurogamerthis afternoon: Today …

Gree has said it is sorry for its handling of the closure of OpenFeint and for putting developers in what it admitted was a tough situation. Speaking toPocketGamer, SVP of marketing and developer relations Eros Resmini said the firm had originally planned to give developers a full year to mirgrate …

Mobile gaming firm had planned to give developers a year to migrate, claims marketing SVP

Layoffs hit Kirkland, Washington and San Francisco studios

Glitch, the free to play social game from Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield, has confirmed that it will terminate next month. The developer said in 2010 that he had been working on Glitch since before the creation of Flickr. It combined elements of platforming and RPGs with social networking. The gameworld …