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2026 massive layoff numbers are consistently highly the last few years, along with studio closures🚀 ✅10,977 gaming jobs lost this year, already surpassing the entire 2025 total of 9,197 ✅It is estimated to reach 13,077 by December, compared to 15,631 in 2024 ✅35 studios closed, including: 1️⃣BioWare 2️⃣Bluepoint Studios 3️⃣Halo Studios 4️⃣Ninja Theory 5️⃣Arkane Austin 6️⃣Alpha Dog Games 7️⃣Monolith Productions 8️⃣Warner Bros Games San Diego 9️⃣Nagoshi Studio 161 studios affected by layoffs and/or under threat of closure: 1️⃣Don’t Nod 2️⃣Arkane Lyon 3️⃣Microsoft: 3,200 layoffs 4️⃣Supermassive Games: +70 layoffs 5️⃣Sucker Punch: 24–26 employees layoffs It’s genuinely scary how unstable working in the industry has become and how many studios we grew up to love and some regard as “iconic” ended up shutting down. And the problem is there’s hardly any real substitute for them, or at least what they used to be back in the day. The industry is long overdue for a reset, because judging by the quality and the quantity of games, and the budget required to accomplish a lessor version of what once was great, is simply unsustainable🥺

We're almost at 295k signatures! Join the petition if you want to help: #SaveMassEffect c.org/L4whHGYwD6

It’s alien to me that people like you hate others so much you celebrate when something they love is taken away from them. If a game you love was canceled, and I didn’t like the game, I wouldn’t celebrate its demise. It would be cruel and childish.

Lots of people love Veilguard. Just because you don’t doesn’t mean that it wasn’t good to other people. EA didn’t need to say anything, there are other sources. I adore Andromeda. Hundreds of thousands of people have signed a petition, raised money for billboards, are passionate.

WE JUST HIT 294K SIGNATURES!!! ONE MORE PUSH AND WE'LL BE AT 300K IN NO TIME CHAT LETS GOOOOOOOOOO #SaveMassEffect

GUYS GUYS GUYS LOOK ITS ALL OF US!!! #SaveMassEffect

savemasseffect.com - Website Update NEW: 🔹 Homepage: highlights for upcoming community actions 🔹Homepage: pep talk videos 🔹UX UI upgrades on mobile devices (again) COMING NEXT: 🔸 War Assets: Visual resources for the community to use & share 🔸 More languages? N7 Day is coming 💙 #SaveMassEffect

This is one of my favorite screenshots. #SaveMassEffect

This is who @EA really took Mass Effect from. Younger me. Who relied on it so much. Who learnt bravery from it. Who found a safe space from it. Who learnt many valuable lessons from it. #SaveMassEffect

#SaveMassEffect blocking comments won’t prevent ratios, you just draw more attention to what’s important.

Nightmare is just one thing, it's about Mass Effect, right now you're the ReAper for us because you destroyed our beloved franchise. Apparently you've never been a fan of a game, otherwise you wouldn't have done something like this. #SaveMassEffect

Mass Effect / BioWare fan created a memorial in the form of graves mourning and honoring all the studios EA shut down, including BioWare, at EA’s offices🚀 I don’t think I’ve seen more passionate fans than those of Mass Effect. What they’ve done to change Mass Effect 3 ending (and succeeded with it) and now with #SaveMassEffect is an incredible showcase of passion. ✅Over 300,000 signatures on the petition ✅Over $5000 raises to use billboards to call to save Mass Effect And now this… Credits and respect to: Xveers on Reddit for the images and the heartfelt gesture🫡

Unfortunately @EA closing Bioware and canceling Mass Effect makes me actively dislike the company. You don't understand the consumer. You have thrown away one of your biggest IPs. EA, you're getting the reaction you deserve. #SaveMassEffect

This! They know about us. They tried to divert our attention to Battlefront 3. And they will try to undermine us. ​But we won't let them. Stand together and #HoldTheLine #SaveMassEffect c.org/GkyNG9Hvdd

We absolutely did not ask people to do this and obviously vandalism is bad, but it's insane to me that #SaveMassEffect is so big that someone in Madrid is this angry. I get it.

A former BioWare technical director has revealed that the cancelled Mass Effect game's story would have accounted for player decisions made in the original Commander Shepard trilogy. For more info: bit.ly/3WswngD