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In an interview with The Guardian , SCEE boss David Reeves has claimed that PlayStation has to suffer a little” in the battle with its next-gen competitors, conceding that the machine’s high price has caused problems but insisting that the priority remains staying profitable – a goal the European PlayStation …
Read More »EA: More job cuts coming as Q3 losses reach $641m
North American publisher EA has announced that it suffered losses totalling $641m for the three months ending December 31st 2008 – this compares to losses of $33m in the same period the year before. Revenue was up, however, hitting $1.65bn compared to $1.5bn in 2007. In further bad news, EA …
Read More »THQ Wireless restructuring leads to losses
THQ is restructuring its mobile division to focus on high-end games for iPhone, N-Gage, PSP and DS, and it seems that this has seen 75 per cent of the THQ Wireless workforce across three offices in the US and Europe made redundant, equivalent to about a hundred people. MCV’s sister …
Read More »EA cuts Canadian dev jobs
Job losses reported at Canada's Burnaby studio and publisherâ??s Australian arm
Read More »Further job cuts rumoured at EA
The EA rumour mill has continued to grind this morning with talk of further lay offs in both Canada and Australia. Overnight speculation on Kotaku claims that EA Canada’s Burnaby studio will be the next to suffer lay offs, with the site claiming that up to 55 people have lost …
Read More »Kuju announces job losses
British developer Kuju has confirmed to MCV’s sister magazine Develop that it has made redundancies across a number of of its offices – but says that it remains optimistic about company growth in 2009. 10 positions at Zoe Mode are ‘at risk’ the firm said, with some other jobs lost …
Read More »Best Buy confirms involuntary layoffs
Leading US electronics retailer Best Buy has announced that a number of its staff at the firm’s Minneapolis HQ are set to lose their jobs as the retailer continues to cut costs, with details to be confirmed on February 19th. Forbes reports that Best Buy had previously run a voluntary …
Read More »Philips announces 6,000 job losses
TV and electricals manufacturer Philips has become the latest tech firm to announce large-scale job cuts with news the company is to cut its global workforce by 6,000 people by the end of the year. The announcement follows Philips’ loss of 1.4bn for the final quarter of 2008 – the …
Read More »Intel to shed up to 6,000 jobs
CPU and PC hardware vendor Intel has announced that it is to restructure some of its manufacturing operations and capacity in an effort to consolidate and streamline the firm, leading to the potential loss of up to 6,000 employees worldwide. An Intel statement reads: The company plans to close two …
Read More »More job losses hit Microsoft gaming
Following its announcement late last week that 5,000 jobs are to be lost in the next 18 months, Microsoft has over the weekend confirmed a number of new cuts. The first high-profile casualty of the cull seems to be the head of Microsoft’s Games for Windows PC gaming initiative, Chris …
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