Supermassive Games are the latest studio to announce layoff plans, with 75 jobs at risk just three months after Directive 8020 launch

It’s the developers' 3rd circular of redundancies successful 2 years

Until Dawn and The Dark Pictures Anthology devs Supermassive Games person announced the opening of redundancy consultations for up to 75 of its staff, a process that volition astir surely adhd to the thousands of layoffs endured by the games manufacture implicit the past fewer years.

Posted connected Not Twitter earlier today, the announcement of these imminient cuts comes conscionable 3 months aft Supermassive’s astir caller fearfulness adventure, Directive 8020, and contains wording that’s uncomfortably reminiscent of the studio’s past circular of wide redundancies successful July past year. That, too, followed a erstwhile circular successful aboriginal 2024, successful which an estimated 90 workers astatine the UK-based workplace mislaid their jobs.

"This is simply a indispensable measurement to assistance guarantee the sustainability of the company," the astir caller livelihood-axing JPG argues, portion assuring that it was a "difficult decision" to statesman the consultations. Last year’s announcement called it a "very hard decision," mind, truthful I conjecture it indispensable person been somewhat easier this clip around.

A connection from Supermassive Games. pic.twitter.com/Vom1CSGYGs

"We cognize this volition beryllium an incredibly hard clip for everyone, and our precedence passim the process volition beryllium to supply enactment to each those impacted."

In fairness to the hard determination makers astatine Supermassive – so, truthful difficult, which is wherefore they’ve made it thrice – they’re acold from unsocial successful maintaining that staunch executive-class content that surely, much tin beryllium made with less. Other caller wide cuttings scope from ZA/UM laying disconnected 30 developers conscionable aft the motorboat of their Disco Elysium successor Zero Parades, each the mode up to Microsoft slashing thousands of roles arsenic portion of their large workplace sell-off. In the past week alone, Crossfire workplace That’s No Moon dropped 14 members of staff, Quantic Dream faced calls for onslaught enactment implicit the dialog process for its planned 115 occupation cuts, and Halo: Campaign Evolved devs Halo Studios celebrated the FPS remake’s motorboat by ending the employment of a 6-year elder contractor.

See however difficult it is?