Sky News wrote:Why are thousands of video game workers losing their jobs?
In the last four months alone, more than 8,000 people who make video games have lost their jobs around the world, including in the UK. At the same time, our games industry is growing - so what's going on?
"I had just woken up and I got an email that said, 'We're going to have a company-wide meeting'. I knew right away."
James, not his real name, was visiting his family earlier this year when he saw the message.
"I started thinking about everything I was set to lose."
He had worked as a game designer at one of the UK's biggest video game studios for nearly a decade. It was a job he loved and had dreamt of since he was nine years old. But recently he had been worried.
All around him, friends in the gaming industry were being let go.
"My mind was racing, what could I do? I wasn't going to be the only one job-seeking at the moment because there were so many layoffs. They all happened at the same time."
He went to the meeting, where his worst fears were confirmed. The company's chief executive said around 25% of people at the studio would be cut. James was one of them.
"It was rough," he said, shaking his head.
Gaming is an anxious world right now. There's been more than 8,000 jobs cut globally since the start of this year and in March, the number of available jobs in the UK hit a record low, according to the report Games Jobs Live.
But in London, as the BAFTA Games Awards 2024 rolled around last week, gamers could just enjoy themselves.
It was a night of glitz and glam with a black-tie dress code. The red carpet was laid along London's South Bank and hundreds of gaming's elite turned out.
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