After gaining independence from Xbox, Double Fine are laying off a quarter of their staff

"As a small, tightly-knit team, these actions are not taken lightly"

It's different 1 of those days, arsenic Double Fine person announced that they are laying disconnected 23 members of staff. This comes weeks aft their divided from Xbox that near them autarkic erstwhile more, which besides saw South of Midnight developers Compulsion spell indie, and State of Decay workplace Undead Labs and Senua's Ninja Theory acquired by new, arsenic of yet to beryllium confirmed owners.

"Today, Double Fine Productions fto spell of 23 members of our staff," reads a connection from workplace caput Tim Schafer. "As a small, tightly-knit team, these actions are not taken lightly. Only the endurance of our workplace would ever marque america see specified a achy action. Our modulation to becoming an autarkic institution besides means becoming a size that we tin sustain. The radical we are losing were each important. They each made an interaction connected our games and culture, and they volition beryllium missed."

The connection ends by noting that Double Fine are "committed to supporting each affected idiosyncratic arsenic champion we can," and thanked them for their work. In a abstracted connection provided to Kotaku, an Xbox spokesperson fundamentally washed their hands of the substance saying, "Double Fine afloat returned to autarkic absorption earlier this week, with their IP, catalog, and runway for their adjacent games. As they statesman their adjacent section arsenic an autarkic studio, we look guardant to seeing what they make next. Double Fine is present afloat autarkic and manages its ain operations."

Ever the insider Jason Schreier clarified connected Bluesky that anterior to the layoffs the workplace was made up of astir 90 staffers, meaning astir 25% of the workforce has fundamentally been cut. Judging from respective posts floating astir connected societal media, immoderate staffers had been astatine the workplace for years that spell successful the treble digits.

Solidarity to each those affected arsenic always.