Reikon Games, the developers behind cyberpunky top-down shooter Ruiner, have reportedly become the latest studio to lay off dozens of staff, with over half of the Polish indie said to have lost their jobs earlier this week.
19.01.2024 - 12:25 / pcgamesinsider.biz / Interactive
Canadian developer Behaviour Interactive has joined the ranks of games industry companies cutting their employee numbers.
Word that the Death by Daylight studio was making layoffs first broke via Kotaku, which reported that 45 staff had lost their jobs earlier in January. Behaviour has now confirmed the news to GamesIndustry.biz, saying that this is just three per cent of its total workforce.
"Recently, changing market conditions necessitated adjusting the scope of several Behaviour projects," a Behaviour rep said.
"In these situations, our preference is always to reassign talent to other projects. Unfortunately, this option is not always available to us. These departures represented less than three per cent of our total workforce."
Only the company's staff in Montreal are affected, though multiple departments have been impacted.
Reikon Games, the developers behind cyberpunky top-down shooter Ruiner, have reportedly become the latest studio to lay off dozens of staff, with over half of the Polish indie said to have lost their jobs earlier this week.
Microsoft will let go of 1,900 employees at Activision Blizzard and Xbox this week, it said on Thursday, the latest cuts in the technology sector that has extended massive layoffs over the past years into 2024.
Update: This story has now been updated with a response from a Microsoft spokesperson.
Microsoft is laying off 1900 people across its video game teams, including Activision Blizzard, ZeniMax and Xbox, equating to approximately eight percent of its gaming workforce.
Microsoft has laid off 1,900 employees from its gaming division—mainly roles at Activision Blizzard King, but also some at Xbox and ZeniMax Media.
Riot Games have announced that they will shortly lay off "about 530" people, or 11 per cent of their global workforce, so as to "create focus and move us towards a more sustainable future", in the words of CEO Dylan Jadeja. The "biggest impact" will be felt outside of core development, though they'll affect at least one major internal team - the developers of Legends Of Runeterra. Riot are also binning off the Riot Forge publishing label, under which third-party developers create smaller-scale games based on Riot's own intellectual properties.
League of Legends developer Riot has announced that its upcoming Stardew Valley-style spin-off will be the last game in its promising indie effort.
Riot Games has announced plans to lay off 530 of their employees, or about 11 % of their workforce.
Tencent Holdings' Riot Games plans to lay off 530 employees, or about 11 percent of its staff globally, the online gaming company said on Monday in a blog that included a letter to employees from CEO Dylan Jadeja.
Another developer has joined the increasingly long list of companies in the games industry that have companies that have initiated layoffs in the early weeks of 2024, continuing the brutal waves of job cuts that devastated the industry the entirety of last year.
Behaviour Interactive, the Canadian game developer behind multiplayer survival horror Dead by Daylight, has confirmed that it’s laying off a number of its staff.
Thunderful Group has announced a major restructuring programme that will see around 20% of its workforce laid off in an effort to significantly reduce running costs and rebalance the business.