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Games24X7 to layoff 70% workforce
Orissa POST
|September 11, 2025
The Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Act, 2025 has devastated the gaming sector. After MPL, this is going to be the second big layoff in industry
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Digital gaming company Games24X7 has started the process to lay off around 70 per cent or around 500 employees, following the government's ban on all forms of money-based online games, sources aware of the development said.
"There were around 700 to 750 employees at Games24X7. The company is now laying off around 70 per cent of them. Around 500 people may be impacted," a source aware of the development said.
This story is from the September 11, 2025 edition of Orissa POST.
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