{"id":230185,"date":"2026-01-30T21:08:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T03:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/33-of-us-game-industry-workers-laid-off-over-last-two-years"},"modified":"2026-01-30T21:08:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T03:08:16","slug":"33-of-us-game-industry-workers-laid-off-over-last-two-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/33-of-us-game-industry-workers-laid-off-over-last-two-years","title":{"rendered":"33% of US Game Industry Workers Laid Off Over Last Two Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/33-of-us-game-industry-workers-laid-off-over-last-two-years.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a difficult time to work in the field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a difficult time to work in the field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}