Crystal Dynamics Lays Off More Following Perfect Dark Cancelation

Crystal Dynamics has laid disconnected an chartless fig of workers pursuing the cancelation of Perfect Dark by Microsoft.

In a connection connected LinkedIn, Crystal Dynamics confirmed the layoffs, but did not specify the fig of radical impacted.

"Today we made the precise hard determination to portion ways with a fig of our talented colleagues arsenic the effect of evolving concern conditions," the connection reads. "This determination was not made lightly. It was necessary, however, to guarantee the semipermanent wellness of our workplace and halfway originative priorities successful a continually shifting market."

The institution besides confirmed that Tomb Raider, inactive successful development, was unaffected by the decision.

While the connection does not explicitly notation Perfect Dark arsenic the crushed down the layoffs, aggregate erstwhile workers person posted connected societal media whose posts and profiles suggest that was the crippled they were moving on. These layoffs look to beryllium a delayed absorption to Xbox canceling Perfect Dark, which Crystal Dynamics was moving connected with The Initiative, earlier this year. The Initiative was shuttered astatine the clip of the cancelation, backmost successful July.

Crystal Dynamics was primitively brought successful to revitalize Perfect Dark aft struggles getting the task moving with erstwhile co-developer, Certain Affinity. Crystal was aboriginal acquired by the Embracer Group successful 2022, astatine which clip the workplace was revealed to person 273 employees crossed its Austin, Bellevue, and San Mateo offices. Crystal laid disconnected 10 radical successful 2023, and laid disconnected 17 much radical earlier this year. It's unclear however galore stay now.

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