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.
18.01.2024 - 12:05 / gamesindustry.biz / Behaviour Interactive / Lays Off / Interactive
Behaviour Interactive has reportedly laid off 45 staff.
According to a report from Kotaku, layoffs at the Dead by Daylight studio started in December but this specific wave occurred between January 9 and 11.
It impacted Behaviour's Montreal staff only, across various departments.
According to the company's Linkedin profile, Behaviour Interactive employs 1,300 staff worldwide.
GamesIndustry.biz reached out to the company for more information.
Behaviour Interactive made a number of acquisitions last year, with SockMonkey Studios bought in February 2023, and Codeglue in August. It also started a UK studio from scratch in July, based in Truro, Cornwall.
We talked to Behaviour's leadership about the company's transatlantic expansion in April last year.
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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.
Black Forest Games, the studio behind the recent Destroy All Humans! 1 and 2 remakes, has reportedly laid off about 50 people. This news comes from Kotaku, which learned from a source with knowledge of the situation that these layoffs were announced yesterday, January 24, and that more information about them would be provided next week.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.