{"id":789749,"date":"2026-07-28T17:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T17:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/789749\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T17:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T17:55:09","slug":"new-data-suggests-layoffs-will-affect-14259-people-by-the-end-of-2026-up-78-from-first-forecast-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/789749\/","title":{"rendered":"New data suggests layoffs will affect 14,259 people by the end of 2026, up 78% from first forecast of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"

New data from the ASGC Games Industry Layoffs Tracker<\/a> predicts job losses will reach 14,259 by the end of 2026, representing a 78% increase over an initial forecast for the year.<\/p>\n

In January, ASGC projected 8,025 layoffs would take place in 2026. This figure has already risen to 9,781 as of an update on July 26.<\/p>\n

“The pace of layoffs is accelerating faster than our models initially predicted,” said business development director at Tencent Games Amir Satvat, who maintains the tracker.<\/p>\n

A previous forecast on July 10 projected 13,878 layoffs. This marks an increase of 381 redundancies in just over two weeks, including 32 at ZA\/UM<\/a>, 20 at 11 Bit Studios<\/a>, 51 at Ubisoft Barcelona<\/a>, and 22 at Red Rover Interactive<\/a>, among others.<\/p>\n

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Image credit: ASGC Games Industry Layoffs Tracker<\/p>\n

The July 10 update followed the first major round of Xbox layoffs<\/a>, which affected 1,600 employees across Obsidian, Bethesda, Id Software, and Zenimax Online Studios<\/a>.<\/p>\n

North America accounts for 66% of layoffs and 79% of affected workers, with the United States at 48% and Canada at 17%. Europe accounts for 30%.<\/p>\n

Combined, North America and Europe represent 95% of all layoffs.<\/p>\n

This year is projected to exceed 2024’s estimated total of 15,631 layoffs, following a decline to 9,197 last year<\/a>. Total projected layoffs over five years are expected to approach 60,000.<\/p>\n

“The timing of Microsoft’s remaining 1,600 cuts is unclear, and some could fall in the back half of FY27, during calendar 2027,” Satvat added.<\/p>\n

“I currently assume all will occur in 2026 and will revise the estimate as better information becomes available.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New data from the ASGC Games Industry Layoffs Tracker predicts job losses will reach 14,259 by the end…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":789750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[74],"class_list":["post-789749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=789749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}