Chinese games company NetEase, which has developed games for Marvel and Pokémon, has been gradually cutting down its Dublin office, with the last remaining personnel informed of lay-offs. NetEase, led by billionaire Ding Lei, opened a Dublin base about two years ago. At its peak it had around 35 staff in fields like quality assurance and software engineering. A wave of lay-offs at the company as a whole in the last year saw the office hollowed out to three people by the end of 2025. The remaining staff were working on projects with NetEase partner studios. In January, the last…

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