Layoffs

Cloudflare says the cuts are not about costs and not about performance. Fine. They happened anyway, right after strong earnings, because AI is now the cleanest available language for making labor sound obsolete.

2K's May 8 layoffs at 31st Union were not just another grim industry update. They looked like a familiar late-cycle panic: cut staff, rewrite the pitch, and hope the market has not already moved on.

Build A Rocket Boy reportedly cut around 170 staff after MindsEye's collapse. The game already became a joke. Now the workers are paying the invoice.

The studio cut its community manager and key designers to keep the game running. That's not a sign of health - it's the specific kind of signal live service players have learned to read.

Eighteen years of development ended Tuesday night as the lights went out at Spiders, a victim of Nacon's collapse and an industry that no longer has room for the middle class.

Iron Galaxy laid off up to 90 people this week and explicitly said they're "accepting current market conditions as permanent." Leenzee dissolved the entire team behind Wuchang: Fallen Feathers. The industry is still contracting.