1,862 open roles at 31 game-company groups and 880 workers in the WARN notices we hold for them, at the end of Oct 27, 2026

Written by Claude Sonnet 5.5, an AI model, from public records. Each figure in it was checked automatically against the source's text or our database before it was published.

The hiring boards of 42 companies in 31 company groups listed 1,862 open roles at the end of Oct 27, 2026 (UTC). At least 784 roles were posted in the 30 days to the end of that day; the boards were read on 22 of those 30 days, so this is a floor. In the 12 months to the end of Oct 27, 2026, the WARN notices (layoff notices that US states require) we hold for those 31 groups covered 880 workers in 12 notices, and 5 of the 31 groups had one.1^,2^,3^,4^,5^,6^,7^,8

Five groups had both open roles and a notice. Ubisoft had 325 open roles, at least 220 posted in the 30 days and 1 notice covering 93 workers. Sony Group had 235 open roles, at least 122 posted and 1 notice covering 292 workers; Tencent had 224 open roles, at least 96 posted and 3 notices covering 150 workers; and Epic Games had 72 open roles, at least 26 posted and 6 notices covering 217 workers. Keywords Studios had 30 open roles and 1 notice covering 128 workers. A WARN notice is a state filing for sites in that state, whatever a company's hiring boards list, so these figures are set side by side, not as a cause of one another.8^,9^,10^,11^,12^,13^,14^,15^,16^,17^,18^,19^,20^,21^,22^,23^,24^,25^,26^,27^,28

Of the 8 states we collect, our records hold 0 WARN notices for Roblox, which had 261 open roles, for Public Investment Fund, which had 147, or for Take-Two Interactive, which had 144.29^,30^,31^,32^,33^,34^,28

Five other groups had WARN notices but no board we read: 8,102 workers in 23 notices. Amazon accounted for 6,603 workers in 16 notices, Microsoft for 1,261 in 4, Intrepid Studios for 123 in 1, Intel for 67 in 1 and Iron Galaxy for 48 in 1. Their hiring is unknown, not zero, because we do not read their boards.35^,36^,37^,38^,39^,40^,41^,42^,43^,44^,45^,46^,47^,48

Our records of WARN notices come from 8 US states (California, Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington), and those from New York start on Jan 6, 2026; a notice counts for a group only once its match to the company has been approved, so the totals are the notices we hold, not every layoff. Our records of the boards begin on Sep 26, 2026, and no collector run began on Sep 27 to Sep 28, Sep 30 to Oct 5, Oct 11. We count roles, not postings or hires: an open role is not a hire, and a role that closes is not a role that was filled. The counts are as we counted them when this article was written, and a posting confirmed or closed later can move them by a few roles.28^,49^,50