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Sources at Sony’s Liverpool, UK studio say that its head-count will ultimately be reduced by about half. The news comes after the format-holder confirmed last week that the development team was to be ‘restructured’ following project cancellations. At the weekend sources told Develop that as much as 50 per cent …

Xbox 360 platform holder Microsoft has cut the price of a number of titles on its Xbox Live Games-On-Demand service in several territories – but not, it seems, in the UK. Four games have seen their prices cut from $29.99 to $19.99 in the North American Marketplace – BioShock, Civilization …

The global game industry has been hit by as many as 11,500 job losses since late 2008, a new study suggests. Research by entertainment analyst group M2 Research says that the final count for layoffs since the economic meltdown in late 2008 reached 11,488 worldwide, with the majority of the …

Expansive casual games provider Oberon Media has been hit with what is speculated to be a large number of layoffs, with former COO Don Ryan having confirmed his departure and that he intends to open his own New York based venture. The full story is over at CasualGaming.biz.

Electronic Arts has revealed that the vast majority of its global staff cuts will be made in its own development studios. Some 900 EA developers across numerous studios will be laid off, compared to the 500 cuts in publishing and 100 in corporate affairs. The total staff cuts are expected …

Reports suggest that Sony has made numerous staff cuts at the dev studio behind popular PSN title Pain – a game which saw more downloads than any other on the PlayStation Store by Nov 2007. Head over to Develop for the full story.

In what is fast appearing as the game industry’s largest ever mass-migration from East to West, mega-publisher Square Enix is rumoured to be reducing as many as 300 staff from its native base in Japan. The rumours, first reported by Kotaku, come as Square Enix continues to pour its sizable …

EA’s Maxis studio – originally responsible for The Sims franchise and most recently Spore – has seen layoffs amongst its staff, the publisher has confirmed. "Often in the video game industry, the size of a studio fluctuates in response to business conditions," Shacknews was told by Electronic Arts in a …

As the industry continues to struggle with the death of the established hardware cycle that has defined the games industry for over two decades, THQ boss Brian Farrell has predicted that two of the current three home consoles will receive a price cut in the next nine months.

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Over sixty employees at Midway’s Chicago-based HQ have been handed their notices and will leave the company by early September.

 The news follows the closure of Midway’s Newcastle arm as the company looks to tie up its Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings, and at the same time work through Warner’s $33 …