"Departures are necessary," Crystal Dynamics say as they yet again lay off Tomb Raider staff, but they're "fully committed" to the reboot and sequel

"We ne'er marque these decisions lightly, peculiarly aft the restructuring we underwent past year"

Tomb Raider developers Crystal Dynamics person announced their 4th circular of layoffs successful 12 months. A full of 20 unit crossed improvement and cardinal operations roles person been fto spell this time, with Crystal Dynamics emphasising they're inactive "fully committed" to Tomb Raider: Catalyst and Tomb Raider: Legacy Of Atlantis.

In March past year, 17 Crystal Dynamics staffers were fixed their marching orders, with an unspecified fig of others being fto spell successful August, and "just nether 30" pursuing successful November.

Given each that bloodletting, it's nary astonishment the workplace were keen to emphasise that they "never marque these decisions lightly, peculiarly aft the restructuring we underwent past year" successful the LinkedIn station announcing their latest layoffs.

"As our existent projects determination into caller phases of development, we continuously instrumentality a hard look astatine our squad structures to guarantee they align with our semipermanent workplace goals," Crystal Dynamics wrote. "While we ever strive to modulation our radical into caller roles whenever possible, we person unluckily reached a constituent wherever these departures are necessary. We are incredibly grateful for the passionateness and hard enactment these individuals person poured into our games and our studio." The workplace added that affected unit volition beryllium provided severance wage and assistance successful uncovering a caller job, encouraging those with openings to scope out.

Finally, Crystal Dynamics declared that they stay "fully committed" to processing adjacent Tomb Raider introduction Catalyst and archetypal Tomb Raider remake Legacy Of Atlantis, some of which were revealed past December.

Solidarity and champion of luck to each those affected by these layoffs astatine Crystal Dynamics. Here's hoping the Embracer Group-owned workplace tin halt chucking people's livelihoods into the prima soon.