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19.01.2024 - 15:19 / gamingbolt.com / Behaviour Interactive / Ci Games / Frank Stone / Interactive
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.
As reported by Kotaku, Dead by Daylight developer Behaviour Interactive has confirmed that it has laid off about 45 of its employees, with multiple different departments being affected.
Behaviour Interactive said in a statement, “Recently, changing market conditions necessitated adjusting the scope of several Behaviour projects.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 3% of our total workforce.”
Behaviour Interactive announced in November that Dead by Daylight had surpassed 60 million players. The company is also expanding the horror IP through collaborations with other developers. Supermassive Games is developing a single player narrative-driven adventure game in the form of The Casting of Frank Stone, while Midwinter Entertainment is working on a new PvE multiplayer game also set in the Dead by Daylight universe.
In a little over two weeks, 2024 has already seen over 3,000 people in the games industry losing their jobs, with the likes of Unity, Twitch, Discord, CI Games, Lost Boys Interactive, Thunderful Group, and others being hit with layoffs. All of 2023 – which was already a devastating year in terms of layoffs – saw over 6,000 job cuts across the entirety of the year.
Dead by Daylight revealed the Lights Out Modifier, which will significantly alter gameplay. The unreleased Modifier will be the first of its kind within Dead by Daylight, and fans might see additional ones added in the future.
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Canadian developer Behaviour Interactive has joined the ranks of games industry companies cutting their employee numbers.
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.
The Lords of the Fallen publisher CI Games has recently announced that 10% of its entire team has been laid off. Game industry layoffs were among the biggest game news stories of 2023, and this unfortunate trend seems to be continuing into 2024.
Behaviour Interactive is the latest notable game developer to lay off workers. The Dead by Daylight studio confirmed to Game Developer that the cuts affected less than three percent of the total workforce. Kotaku first reported on the layoffs, stating that they took place earlier this month and affected around 45 people across several departments. It initially appeared that the layoffs were limited to Behaviour's Montreal headquarters, but the publisher hasn't confirmed whether that's the case.
Dead by Daylight developer Behaviour Interactive has reportedly laid off 45 people, Kotaku has learned. The publication says those with knowledge of the situation at the studio said the layoffs only affected people at Behaviour's Montreal, Canada studio, with those 45 affected let go last week, between January 9 and 11.