Published 2026-06-24 10.22
In the middle of the multibillion-dollar deal:
Mass layoffs.
Now EA is firing even more employees, writes Kotaku.
During the summer is expected The 537-billion deal selling Electronic arts, EA, to Saudi Arabia go through.
Now the gaming company is carrying out another round of layoffs.
According to information to Kotaku it concerns an unknown number of employees in the USA and India in areas such as recruitment, customer support (Fan Care), trust & safety and IT. Some must have worked for the pod company for over ten years.
Internal message
According to an internal message that the site has seen, the changes are part of EA:’s work in adapting the business to changing customer needs:
“As part of this evolution, we are making or proposing to make changes to certain roles, creating new roles and moving certain work to other teams, locations or service partners”.
This is the third known wave of layoffs at EA in 2026 and continues a multi-year trend of layoffs. In 2023, over 200 “Apex legends” testers were first fired via Zoom calls, and the following month around 800 more after reporting large profits. The following year, 670 were forced to leave, and last year around 400 people left, as well as the closure of the Cliffhanger games studio.
