The troubling recent trend of mass video game industry layoffs continued this week. This time, it was Electronic Arts, considered one of the industry's biggest third-party video game publishers. Per Bloomberg,

IGN reports that about 100 employees at Respawn were laid off, including developers, QA workers, and publishing staffers. IGN also says that some workers were moved from Respawn over to EA Motive’s Iron Man game, the Battlefield series, “and other projects.”

Bloomberg's Jason Schreier, citing people familiar with the cuts, writes that between 300 and 400 positions are being eliminated at EA, with about 100 of those