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This year is shaping up to be one to remember, for all the wrong reasons. It’s not even February and over 5,000 developers have lost their jobs due to mass layoffs in gaming companies\u2014more than half of 2023’s total. <\/p>

The year of 2023 was a gloomy period for game developers. Though players saw astronomically successful games such as Baldur’s Gate 3<\/em> and Lethal Company<\/em>, it wasn’t all sunshine and rainbows behind the scenes. More than 9,000 employees were let go from gaming companies last year due to layoffs induced by various reasons, the Economic Times reported<\/a>. Now, we’ve already seen over 5,000 lost jobs in the gaming industry caused by mass company downsizings, “resets,” and “readjustments.” <\/p>