Gigaboots Industry Burning Block Jan 2025 - Dec 2025
Special Thanks to @ultrapyrusbrawler for the Timestamp Help through the Year and Special Thanks to @screensavorstudios.bsky.social for the Thumbnail Art.
Detailed Timestamps and Details Here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11...
00:00:00
BTD #305 - RTX 5000 announced, WB Montreal & Splash Damage layoffs
00:36:00
BTD #306 - Matthew Ball's 2025 State of Gaming, Sony cancels live service games, Nvidia mandating reviewers to have ai frames in reviews
01:35:02
BTD #307 - Concord's $400 million failure, FC 25 and Veilguard "underperformed", Unknown 9 franchise has been cancelled
02:03:52
BTD #308 - The “Dan was Right” Segment, layoffs at Ubisoft Düsseldorf, Ubisoft Stockholm and Ubisoft Reflections
02:34:46
BTD #309 - MultiVersus Is shutting down, Iron Galaxy lays off 66 employees, Bend Studios’ Layoffs due to live service game being cancelled
02:58:34
BTD #310 - Crytek announces layoffs, Rocksteady working on new, single-player Batman game
03:14:51
BTD #311 - Microsoft unveils Muse, a generative AI model for gameplay ideation
03:26:24
BTD #312 - Warner Bros. shuts down Monolith Productions, Player First Games, WB San Diego
03:45:39
BTD #313 - Sony lays off unknown number of workers at PlayStation Visual Arts Studio and PlayStation Studios Malaysia
03:53:33
BTD #314 - Spectre Divide and its developer Mountaintop Studios are shutting down
04:08:37
BTD #315 - ARK: Survival Evolved releases an AI generated trailer
04:16:15
BTD #316 - Hogwarts Legacy DLC reportedly canceled by WB Games
04:22:26
BTD #317 - Eidos Montreal lays off 75 employees
04:26:43
BTD #318 - Doug Bowser: "some people...may not be able to afford [the Switch 2's] price point. That's why we wanted to make the other Switch platforms available."
04:44:05
BTD #319 - Sony confirms price hike for PS5 & PS+ in several regions, Niantic lays off 68 workers
04:54:47
BTD #320- Tariffs
04:57:43
BTD #321 - EA lays off over 300 employees, including 100 at Respawn, Polygon sold to Valnet
05:14:33
BTD #323 - Fairgames loses studio founder Jade Raymond, Ubisoft shares plummet 20%, Microsoft laying off about 6,000 employees
05:56:22
BTD #324 - Marathon will need to be one of the top five best selling games of the year to be a success
06:01:54
BTD #325 - Marathon marketing cancelled, EA cancels Black Panther game, Playtonic hit by layoffs
06:20:56
BTD #326 - People Can Fly cancels Project Bifrost and Square Enix’s Project Gemini
06:28:50
BTD #327 - Disney and Universal sue AI firm Midjourney for copyright infringement
06:39:54
BTD #328 - Bungie delays Marathon indefinitely
06:47:11
BTD #329 - Front Mission 3 (2025) appears to replace 2D art assets with generative AI, Build A Rocket Boy begins layoffs Process
06:58:20
BTD #330 - Microsoft laying off about 9,000 employees, Switch price increase announced, John Romero's new FPS loses funding
07:51:06
BTD #331 - Krafton delays Subnautica 2 to 2026 as rumors circulate that the delay is to avoid paying a $250 million bonus for dev team
07:54:51
BTD #332 - Steam now bans games that violate the "rules and standards" of payment processors and banks, Virtuos lays off 270 employees
08:18:46
BTD #333 - Itch-dot-io has hidden its entire NSFW game library due to mounting pressure from payment processors
08:56:04
BTD #334 - WB Games Montreal job listings point to new live service DC game
09:01:34
BTD #337 - PS5 price increase announced by Sony
09:12:27
BTD #338 - King confirms 200 job cuts with AI tools set to replace laid-off devs, Crystal Dynamics has second round of layoffs this year
09:17:46
BTD #339 - Saudi Arabian company Qiddiya acquiresEVO, Firaxis & Dreamhaven laid offs
09:25:24
BTD #341 - The Wolf Among Us 2’s status is a mystery
09:27:36
BTD #343 - EA going private after $55 billion deal, Microsoft hikes Xbox Game Pass prices up to a staggering 50%
09:53:33
BTD #344 - Call of Duty lost $300 million in sales due to Game Pass, Funcom shutters Metal: Hellsinger studio The Outsiders
10:05:17
BTD #345 - MercurySteam reportedly has been forcing crunch for months
10:14:27
BTD #346 - Next Xbox won't be cheap, according to Sarah Bond, Microsoft increases the price of Xbox dev kits by $500
10:28:47
BTD #347 - Amazon reportedly "gutting" its video game division as part of 14,000 company wide job cuts, Bonus Xbox
10:54:20
BTD #348 - NetEase Games closes Bad Brain Game Studios, Square Enix announces mass layoffs, while also aiming to have genAI doing 70% of its QA work by the end of 2027
11:09:10
BTD #350 - Avalanche closes its Liverpool studio, Crystal Dynamics announces yet more layoffs
11:14:46
BTD #351 - Micron to end Crucial consumer memory business amid AI-driven supply strain
11:29:31
BTD #353 - Naughty Dog devs reportedly in mandatory overtime to complete internal demo by December