{"id":1859312,"date":"2023-11-15T17:44:38","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T22:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/plato-data\/kongregate-digital-bros-cut-jobs-in-a-growing-wave-of-video-game-industry-layoffs\/"},"modified":"2023-11-15T17:44:38","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T22:44:38","slug":"kongregate-digital-bros-cut-jobs-in-a-growing-wave-of-video-game-industry-layoffs","status":"publish","type":"station","link":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/plato-data\/kongregate-digital-bros-cut-jobs-in-a-growing-wave-of-video-game-industry-layoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Kongregate, Digital Bros. cut jobs in a growing wave of video game industry layoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The video game industry\u2019s string of layoffs<\/a> continues: Digital Bros. Entertainment and Kongregate have both announced job cuts. <\/p>\n

Digital Bros., which owns Control <\/em>publisher 505 Games and other studios, is laying off 30% of its workforce \u2014 roughly 130 people \u2014 as part of an \u201corganization review,\u201d it announced Tuesday<\/a>. The job losses will largely impact Digital Bros.\u2019 studios, according to a news release. Beyond 505 Games, Digital Bros. Entertainment owns DR Studios (Terraria<\/em><\/a> for mobile and console), Kunos Simulazioni (Assetto Corsa<\/em>), Infinity Plus Two (Puzzle Quest 3<\/em>), Supernova Games, Nesting Games, Avantgarden (Last Day of June<\/em><\/a>) and Ingame Studios (Crime Boss: Rockay City<\/em><\/a>).<\/p>\n

Kongregate, the online gaming portal and publisher, has cut more than a dozen jobs across several departments. Kongregate has not responded to Polygon\u2019s request for comment. The layoffs span multiple departments, including art, VFX, marketing, community management, and production. It\u2019s been a challenging few years<\/a> for Kongregate, which made a name for itself in the early 2000s as the<\/em> online portal for Flash games. When Adobe dropped Flash support<\/a> for good in 2020, Kongregate had to shift toward preserving its Flash games.<\/p>\n

In July 2020, Kongregate announced it was no longer accepting user-created games, as it moved toward its own internal development. At that time, it laid off several people<\/a> to \u201creshape\u201d the company. One person laid off by Kongregate told Polygon it came as a total surprise.<\/p>\n

Three video game studios have laid off workers in as many days: Amazon\u2019s gaming division announced layoffs on Monday. More than 180 people have been cut from Amazon\u2019s Crown Channel and Game Growth programs<\/a> as the company \u201crefocuses\u201d on Prime Gaming, according to a staff memo sent by Amazon Games vice president Christoph Hartmann. Humble Games, which publishes video games like Coral Island <\/em>and Mineko\u2019s Night Market<\/em>, also laid off an unknown number of staffers this week, it confirmed to GLHF<\/a>. Over the past year, more than 6,000 people have been laid off in the video game industry, according to a layoff tracking website<\/a>.<\/p>\n