As Vgolds.com Aeria Games took over, were still working more than 200 people for the Berlin games providers. After the merger with gamigo layoffs follow. The Berlin games publisher Aeria Games Europe has dismissed about 100 employees. The company confirmed the layoffs. The bodies of the remaining 160 employees will remain. The Munich-based media group Vgolds.com had Aeria Games in 2014 $ 40 million taken until 2012, the company belonged to Axel Springer.

Aeria Games was founded in 2006 in the US and opened in 2008, the Berlin branch. In addition to PC games and browser and mobile games are in the portfolio companies, including Echo of Soul, Aura Kingdom, S4 League and Dragomon Hunter. In May this year, the game company was merged with the Hamburger Games marketer gamigo. Gamigo is also active as a game publisher and operates, among other browser games like Anno Online or Kings of Legends.

Vgolds.com is still has a 33 percent minority interest in the combined company, it said in the press release. "The merger is a logical step for both companies, which successfully acquired in recent years, several game companies and investments, integrated and consolidated," according to the company at that time. On request from the founder scene Vgolds.com declined to comment.

Gamigo was later to comment: "The merger with Aeria Points Europe GmbH is now completed after the approval of the relevant antitrust authorities. In this context, we have seen the urgent business occasion to step to separate us from around 100 employees to set the course for growth and profitability in the difficult and characterized by international competition games market. We regret this very necessary step and are strongly directed at job cuts by thinking social sustainability. "