https://layoffcheck.com/companies/kingcom Layoff and WARN notices reported for King.com. en-us https://layoffcheck.com/companies/kingcom#2025-07 https://layoffcheck.com/companies/kingcom#2025-07-315 Mon, 14 Jul 2025 12:00:00 GMT King, the Candy Crush maker owned by Activision Blizzard, cut around 200 staff in July 2025 across its Stockholm, London, Barcelona, and Berlin offices. According to sources who spoke to Mobile Gamer, those let go included level designers, user researchers, UX and narrative copywriters, and middle managers, with London's Farm Heroes Saga team particularly hard hit, losing roughly 50 people. Level design was described as nearly completely eliminated at some studios. Leadership cited the need to remove organizational layers and reduce specialization silos to speed up development. The human cost was sharpened by an uncomfortable irony: many of the workers being cut had spent months building and training the AI tools that were now automating their roles. Internal morale surveys conducted before the announcement already showed low engagement, and sources said the mood had deteriorated sharply after the news. A new organizational structure was expected to be presented to staff following union negotiations in September.