After Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption developer Rockstar fired 30-40 employees, the studio was accused of union busting by the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain. Rockstar denied the accusations through a spokesperson and maintained that these employees had leaked information on a public forum. The latest chapter of the story saw an anonymous employee of the award-winning game development studio write a lengthy post on GTAForums, the biggest public forum dedicated to the series of best-selling open world videogames. This poster's identity was allegedly verified by a moderator at GTAForums. In the post, this employee claims that […]

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A new report from VGC alleges that Square Enix is laying off staff in "nearly all areas" of its Western offices, with staff in its Europe and US offices hit. There's currently no word from Square Enix on how many have been impacted by this layoff, but sources told VGC that just from Square's London office, 140 employees are at risk of redundancy. The news was delivered to staff through an internal video call as part of a restructuring that Square had mentioned in the progress report it published today, the same report where it boldly claimed that it wanted […]

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Final Fantasy developers and publishers Square Enix have announced plans to lay off staff, with workers across "nearly all areas" of their Western business arms being affected. More than 100 UK staff are reportedly expected to be affected, with an indeterminate number of US-based workers also reportedly facing a future that's up in the air. The reasoning given for the cuts centres around that depressingly ever-present word nowadays - restructuring - as Square look to cut costs and consolidate their focus around their Japanese development base.

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