{"id":2351554,"date":"2026-03-30T15:31:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T15:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2351554"},"modified":"2026-03-30T15:31:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T15:31:24","slug":"series-entertainment-subsidiary-pixelberry-lays-off-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/series-entertainment-subsidiary-pixelberry-lays-off-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Series Entertainment subsidiary Pixelberry lays off staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-module=\"content\">\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\"><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\">Series Entertainment-owned developer Pixelberry Studios, best known for the mobile game <\/span><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\"><span class=\"ContentText-BodyTextChunk ContentText-BodyTextChunk_italic\">Choices<\/span><\/span><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\">, has reportedly laid off staff.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\"><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\">Word of the alleged layoffs comes via <\/span><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ContentText-BodyTextChunk ContentText-BodyTextChunk_link\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/emi-moore_opentowork-share-7443357992055545856-vFbK?utm_source=social_share_send&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop_web&amp;rcm=ACoAAByD5EUBfxY4kCf3wHtdwCavc5euTv0rxzo\">LinkedIn<\/a><\/span><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\">, where a senior game writer at Pixelberry said that &#8220;the game dev layoff beast caught me at last&#8221; after over eight years with the studio.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\"><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\">&#8220;Lots of other wonderful people were impacted today,&#8221; <\/span><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ContentText-BodyTextChunk ContentText-BodyTextChunk_link\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/olivia-pourzia-6479a978_opentowork-activity-7443110549258797057-KJ3C?utm_source=social_share_send&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop_web&amp;rcm=ACoAAByD5EUBfxY4kCf3wHtdwCavc5euTv0rxzo\">wrote a senior writer and writing manager<\/a><\/span><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\"> at Pixelberry, who was also reportedly laid off after over eight years. &#8220;If you get an application from someone who worked at Pixelberry, know that they are some of the best in the business and will put their heart into any game that they work on.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\"><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\">&#8220;Turns out three waves of layoffs is the max I can survive, so while it wasn&#8217;t by choice, I guess I&#8217;m now officially a full-time author,&#8221; wrote a <\/span><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ContentText-BodyTextChunk ContentText-BodyTextChunk_link\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/dahliaadler_turns-out-three-waves-of-layoffs-is-the-max-share-7443046277384261633-Se7O?utm_source=social_share_send&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop_web&amp;rcm=ACoAAByD5EUBfxY4kCf3wHtdwCavc5euTv0rxzo\">writer for <\/a><\/span><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ContentText-BodyTextChunk ContentText-BodyTextChunk_link ContentText-BodyTextChunk_italic\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/dahliaadler_turns-out-three-waves-of-layoffs-is-the-max-share-7443046277384261633-Se7O?utm_source=social_share_send&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop_web&amp;rcm=ACoAAByD5EUBfxY4kCf3wHtdwCavc5euTv0rxzo\">Choices<\/a><\/span><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\">. &#8220;Unfortunately, a lot of talented people were laid off along with me.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\"><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\">The extent of the reported layoffs is unknown. Isador Pinto, who worked as a game editor at Pixelberry from 2022 to 2024, <\/span><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ContentText-BodyTextChunk ContentText-BodyTextChunk_link\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/isador-pinto-881b2a15b_another-layoff-hit-choices-this-morning-activity-7443038653938810880-J1G3?utm_source=social_share_send&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop_web&amp;rcm=ACoAAByD5EUBfxY4kCf3wHtdwCavc5euTv0rxzo\">listed nine people<\/a><\/span><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\">, mentioning on Friday that &#8220;another layoff hit <\/span><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\"><span class=\"ContentText-BodyTextChunk ContentText-BodyTextChunk_italic\">Choices<\/span><\/span><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\"> this morning.&#8221; Despite having no recent history with the studio on LinkedIn, Pinto added that &#8220;I still have my position (AFAIK).&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-component=\"related-article\" class=\"RelatedArticle\"><span data-testid=\"related-article-title\" class=\"RelatedArticle-Title\">Related:<\/span><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"RelatedArticle-RelatedContent\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamedeveloper.com\/business\/free-to-play-spinoff-the-elder-scrolls-blades-is-being-shut-down\" target=\"_self\" data-discover=\"true\">Free-to-play spinoff The Elder Scrolls: Blades is being shut down<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\"><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\">The reported round of job cuts would be the second one in two years. In January 2024, Pixelberry <\/span><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ContentText-BodyTextChunk ContentText-BodyTextChunk_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamedeveloper.com\/business\/nexon-owned-mobile-studio-pixelberry-is-conducting-layoffs\" target=\"_self\" data-discover=\"true\">reportedly laid off an unknown number of employees<\/a><\/span><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\">, who also used LinkedIn to announce their departures.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\"><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\">At the time, Pixelberry was owned by Nexon, the studio and publisher behind <\/span><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\"><span class=\"ContentText-BodyTextChunk ContentText-BodyTextChunk_italic\">MapleStory<\/span><\/span><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\">, <\/span><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\"><span class=\"ContentText-BodyTextChunk ContentText-BodyTextChunk_italic\">Dungeon &amp; Fighter<\/span><\/span><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\">, and <\/span><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\"><span class=\"ContentText-BodyTextChunk ContentText-BodyTextChunk_italic\">Dave the Diver<\/span><\/span><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\">. <\/span><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ContentText-BodyTextChunk ContentText-BodyTextChunk_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamedeveloper.com\/business\/nexon-snaps-up-i-high-school-story-i-game-dev-pixelberry-studios\" target=\"_self\" data-discover=\"true\">Nexon acquired Pixelberry in 2017<\/a><\/span><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\"> for an undisclosed fee. Then, generative AI developer <\/span><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ContentText-BodyTextChunk ContentText-BodyTextChunk_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamedeveloper.com\/business\/mobile-dev-pixelberry-acquired-by-series-entertainment\" target=\"_self\" data-discover=\"true\">Series Entertainment purchased the studio<\/a><\/span><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\"> seven months later.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\"><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\">Back then, Series co-founder Pany Haritatos deemed Pixelberry a &#8220;category leader in the interactive fiction genre,&#8221; expressing hope to evolve the studio to &#8220;the next level.&#8221; For Pixelberry, this meant using its new parent company&#8217;s Rho engine. The proprietary engine has been touted by Series as the first &#8220;AI-native, multimodal full-stack game creation platform.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\"><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\">It&#8217;s worth mentioning that generative AI is a technology that has carried a <\/span><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ContentText-BodyTextChunk ContentText-BodyTextChunk_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamedeveloper.com\/business\/one-third-of-game-workers-use-generative-ai-but-half-think-it-s-bad-for-the-industry\" target=\"_self\" data-discover=\"true\">negative reception from developers<\/a><\/span><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\"> during the past few years, with many arguing that it is having a deleterious impact on the industry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\"><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\">Game Developer has contacted Pixelberry Studios for clarification.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script defer=\"\" async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v18.0\" data-ot-ignore=\"true\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.gamedeveloper.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Series Entertainment-owned developer Pixelberry Studios, best known for the mobile game Choices, has reportedly laid off staff. Word of the alleged layoffs comes via LinkedIn, where a senior game writer at Pixelberry said that &#8220;the game dev layoff beast caught me at last&#8221; after over eight years with the studio. &#8220;Lots of other wonderful people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2351555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2351554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Series-Entertainment-subsidiary-Pixelberry-lays-off-staff.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2351554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2351556,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351554\/revisions\/2351556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2351555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2351554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2351554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2351554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}