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Game layoffs slow down faster than expected in 2025


Layoffs in the game industry have slowed down somewhat in the first few months of 2025, according to game job champion Amir Satvat.

These resources have given him access to data about job seekers and the companies advertising openings. “I can’t predict what will happen tomorrow – or next week, month, or year,” he wrote in a post on LinkedIn. But this is the most encouraging gap between trend and projection I’ve seen since we started publicly sharing this exercise in the second half of 2024,” Satvat wrote.

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