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Over 50% of video game layoffs have been in California, says Game Changers award recipient
The games industry has been wracked by layoffs in the last few years, but over half of all layoffs have been in California.
Globally, employment in the games industry has increased since before the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, though that depends on region. While Asia has seen an increase in jobs, North America has seen its workforce in AAA studios cut by 15 to 20 percent. "There is opportunity, but it may be that if you want to stay in the industry, being open to going to some of these places like China, like Japan, not forever, but for some amount of time, that's going to become a larger part of the equation."
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