The Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning Mark Jacobs Interview Part One on MMORPG.COM is an article-format conversation with EA Mythic VP Mark Jacobs, who reveal she is now just Mythic VP Mark Jacobs, as they are dropping EA from their name. In part two of the Q&A Jacobs reveals that cla...

Rationalizing Removal with Mark Jacobs Part 1 on Ten Ton Hammer talks with the EA Mythic boss about recent announcement that some of the content planned for Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning will be cut prior to launch of the MMORPG (story). Mark concludes looking at the bright side of how ...

Activision Blizzard to suffer job cuts on mcvuk.com has word that the merger of Activision and Blizzard will lead to an "all-star team" of developers, but that "overlaps" will result in "redundancies," meaning that some people are going to lose their jobs: Here ...

This press release announces Midway's cancellation of a project that was in the works at its Austin, TX studio. The project was never announced, which normally might lead to thinking this was an Onion story, except the cancellation has the very real negative side-effect of costing a number o...

The Vancouver Sun (thanks Edge Online) reports another unfortunate round of developer layoffs, as around 100 employees have been let go from Radical Entertainment, which represents approximately half the staff of the Canadian developer. The cuts are the latest fallout from the Activision ...

GamesIndustry.biz confirms rumors of cuts at NCsoft Europe (story), saying 58 positions are being eliminated from the Brighton-based NCsoft division, which was just absorbed into the newly formed NC West (story). They say sources have indicated to them that development, marketing, and publ...

This story details the financial reporting at Electronic Arts, as second quarter losses at the gaming giant widened to $310 million. This has had a negative impact on their stock price, their forecast for the year, and will take a toll on their workforce, as word is: "The company will e...

Gamasutra reports that casual game developer WildTangent has closed its internal development team, and laid off about 20% of its workforce. The company is primarily a publisher, and will continue in this vein. The report also indicates that cofounder Alex St. John has stepped down from his r...

THQ Reports Fiscal 2009 Second Quarter Results, Reduces Fiscal 2009 Outlook and Announces Significant Business Realignment has some number-crunching from THQ's latest financial reporting. Included is news of a delay to Red Faction: Guerrilla, the shooter sequel originally announced for relea...