Embracer Group has bought up a bunch of studios in recent years, but now it’s a crisis. The Swedish giant has been in the process of restructuring since this summer, it has already closed Volition (Saints Row) and would like to get rid of Gearbox Entertainment (Borderlands). But this week, Embracer Group made the layoffs at two other studios.
First of all, It is Beamdog who saw 26 employees walk out the door. The developer of MythForcewhich has just been released, belongs to Aspyr Mediabought by Embrace in February 2021, and the latter bought Beamdog Last year. Layoffs which concern in particular the associate producer Misia Bloniarz, theassociate graphic artist Jill Hollet or quality assurance manager Erin McIntyre.
Information quickly obscured by another announcement of layoffs, which concerns Crystal Dynamicsdeveloper of tomb Raider and sold by Square Enix in May 2022. Nine employees are being fired today, including communications director Adam Kahn, Community Manager Neha Nair and the senior brand manager Nicholas Edwards. Crystal Dynamics made the bad news official on social networksciting “an internal restructuring aimed at aligning the studio with our current business needs”.
The studio is developing as a reminder a new game tomb Raider below Unreal Engine 5 edited by Amazon Gameswhile helping The Initiative on the reboot of Perfect Dark. On X, Internet users candidly ask Microsoft to recruit redundant people. It remains to be seen whether these referrals will lengthen the development of the games, even if the positions mentioned mainly concern marketing.
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