Well, that's the thing. Hiring in gaming seldom makes headlines, because it tends to be piecemeal. If you click through on the Venture Beat link, you'll see that Satvat regularly checks job listings at game companies to try to assess the amount of hiring going on.

I've previously reported that there were major headcount increases at many big game publishers around 2020-2-22 that largely went unreported, to the point that the more recent, heavy cuts may not have cancelled them out everywhere. Headcounts eventually show up in publicly traded companies' annual reports, but there's a lengthy lag