before we all get riled up note from the article, notice the non-game-development part The layoffs, which will mostly be in non-game-development areas like pub

before we all get riled up note from the article, notice the non-game-development part The layoffs, which will mostly be in non-game-development areas like publishing, will impact Activision, Blizzard, and King. In one case, an entire studio of 78 people was shut down—Seattle-based mobile game studio Z2Live. This is in spite of Kotick saying that the company achieved "record results in 2018." Activision made a statement about exceeding its expectations, but other market-watchers clearly had higher numbers in mind.