EA Cuts Roughly 700 Jobs in Another Round of Industry Layoffs
Around 5% of the firm's workforce gone.
Just a day after Sony confirmed it's laying off 900 PlayStation employees across its first-party studios, publisher EA has announced it's doing the same. In the region of 670 workers — or around five per cent of the company's workforce — will lose their jobs as the EA Sports FC, Battlefield distributor moves "away from development of future licensed IP that we do not believe will be successful in our changing industry".
Instead, the firm is going to double down on "our owned IP, sports, and massive online communities", which means it is bringing post-launch development on current titles that don't fit that bill to an end. According to GamesIndustry.biz, one unannounced game has been cancelled and the team distributed to other projects within EA, with other games media journalists claiming it's the Star Wars FPS from Respawn Entertainment based on The Mandalorian.
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