Sony is eliminating 292 jobs at Bungie's Bellevue headquarters, the third round of cuts in three years at a studio that once employed more than 1,000 people.

The layoffs, confirmed in a WARN notice filed with the Washington State Employment Security Department, take effect July 9. The cuts follow the end of Destiny 2, the live-service shooter Bungie operated for eight years before shipping its final content update on June 9.

Hermen Hulst, CEO of Sony's Studio Business Group, said in a statement published June 25, that the reduction affects most of the Destiny team, some Marathon team members, and Sony support staff. The cuts are permanent. Affected employees will receive a combination of notice and pay in lieu of notice totaling 60 days, and none are represented by a union, according to the WARN filing.

The 292 figure covers only Bungie's Washington state workforce. IGN reported the total layoff call included more than 400 people globally.

Bungie employed roughly 1,000 people in Bellevue as recently as 2023, according to the city of Bellevue's annual financial report. Sony paid $3.6 billion for the studio in 2022. After laying off approximately 320 workers between October 2023 and July 2024, and now cutting 292 more, Bungie has roughly 500 or fewer employees remaining. That is just over a third of its headcount at the time of the acquisition.

Studio head Justin Truman stepped down concurrent with the layoffs, per Bloomberg's Jason Schreier. Truman joined Bungie in 2010 as an engineering lead on the original Destiny and took over the top job when CEO Pete Parsons departed after 23 years. Former VP of Operations Poria Torkan has taken charge, according to Forbes.

The WARN notice lists job titles spanning every department: artists, technical animators, audio leads, sound designers, engineers, producers, and systems designers. Former cinematics director John Ebenger confirmed on Bluesky that the entire cinematic team was cut.

"The entire Cinematic org was included," Ebenger wrote. "Let me know if you're looking to pick up a Director and/or other talented cine folks at any level."

The Bungie cuts land in a brutal stretch for Washington state's tech workforce. Meta is eliminating 1,395 jobs in Washington, with layoffs taking effect July 22. Epic Games cut 82 jobs at its Lincoln Square office in Bellevue earlier in 2026. Expeditors International ended a 40-year no-layoff tradition with roughly 230 regional cuts this year.

Between May 2025 and April 2026, more than 11,000 tech workers in Washington lost their jobs, second only to California, according to workforce intelligence company Revelio Labs data reported by KUOW.

Marathon, Bungie's extraction shooter that launched in March 2026 with a reported budget exceeding $250 million, remains the studio's only active game. It drew just 9,550 concurrent players on June 26, far below its March launch peak of 86,718. No new Bungie projects have been greenlit. Sony has reported $765 million in impairment losses tied to Bungie's underperformance.

Hulst said Sony's immediate priority is providing transition assistance and identifying opportunities within its global studio network for displaced workers.

The separation date of July 9 falls six days before the four-year anniversary of the Sony acquisition's close. Whether departing employees will receive final vesting payouts tied to the deal remains unclear; neither Sony nor Bungie has addressed the timing publicly.