Jam City has laid off 10% of its workforce

• The studio's first round of lay off was in 2022

Video game developer and publisher Jam City has laid off around 85 employees. 

Polygon senior reporter Nicole Carpenter took to social platform X (formerly Twitter) to confirm the 10% workforce redundancy at the mobile games studio. 

"After a challenging 2023, industry analysts predicted an upward trend for gaming in 2024. While we have seen moderate improvements in some areas, the overall upward trend has not materialised as expected," said Jam City CEO Josh Yguado said in an email to staff. 

“Projections indicate these conditions will continue for some time, with improvements not expected until the second half of 2025."

Second wave of layoffs despite profitability

This is the second time Jam City has had to let go of workers after laying off 17% of its workforce in 2022 despite being profitable but blamed the “challenging global economy". 

Jam City is behind games like DC Heroes & Villains, Disney Emoji Blitz and Jurassic World Alive. The company had about 1,400 employees but this number has reduced in light of the studio's latest lay off. 

Despite the rate of layoffs diminshing in recent times we recently saw Sony-owned games studio Bungie (Halo and Destiny) also eliminate 220 roles, around 17% of its workforce, last week.