Economy – Infection Podcast Episode 460

Amazon Layoffs, Epic turned down $147M and more on this week’s episode of Infection Podcast

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• Random

• • Amid fan backlash, Modern Warfare 3 studio bluntly denies reports the campaign was scraped together in 16 months as ‘simply not true’ | PC Gamer

• Economy

• • Kotaku staff hit by redundancies | GamesIndustry.biz
  • Amazon reduces games division by 180 | GamesIndustry.biz
    • Amazon is getting rid of its gaming content channel amid larger games layoffs – The Verge
  • Unity announces layoffs despite increased revenue and reduced losses | GamesIndustry.biz
    • After earning $544 million in its most recent quarter, Unity says even more layoffs are ‘likely’
  • Samurai Punk to close down | GamesIndustry.biz
  • Frontier to lay off unknown number of staff in organisational review | GamesIndustry.biz
  • Experis Game Solutions staff are pursuing unionization | GamesIndustry.biz
  • Dreams and LittleBigPlanet studio Media Molecule is reportedly laying off 15-20% of staff | VGC
  • Cryptic Studios impacted by layoffs | GamesIndustry.biz
  • Motorsport Games to lay off up to 38 employees | GamesIndustry.biz
  • 100 Thieves to cut 20% of its workforce | GamesIndustry.biz
  • Digital Extremes impacted by layoffs, closing publishing division | GamesIndustry.biz

• Epic

• • Epic v. Google, explained
  • Epic turned down $147m deal to put Fortnite on Google Play | Epic vs Google | GamesIndustry.biz
  • Epic Games Admits In Court That Its PC Store Still Isn’t Profitable
  • Epic Games Store Still Makes No Money