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SEGA Drops Relic Entertainment and Cuts Back Across the UK | Push Square
31.03.2024 - 01:13 / pushsquare.com
SEGA has sold off primarily PC-based strategy game developer Relic Entertainment, and is in the process of cutting up to 240 jobs across its various UK studios. Relic, which makes the Company of War games, will become an independent studio moving forwards, and said in a short statement that it remains on good terms with its former parent company.
As mentioned above, the bulk of the job losses will be attributed to Creative Assembly and SEGA Europe, although mobile developer SEGA HARDlight will also be hit. There’s no mention of Two Point Studios or Sports Interactive, so presumably those two are safe.
“I want to sincerely apologise for the worry and understandable distress this news will cause, particularly for those directly affected,” explained new SEGA Europe boss Jurgen Post, who’s presumably experiencing a baptism of fire here. “These decisions have been incredibly tough to make, and they follow meticulous consideration and deliberation with leadership teams across the business. Change is necessary to secure the future of our games business, and to ensure that we are well placed to deliver the best possible experiences to our players going forward.”
Obviously this is just the latest in a long line of job cuts which have been ravaging the industry for well over a year now. “We need to streamline, focus on what we are good at, and position ourselves as best we can for the road ahead,” Post concluded. “In order to do that, we need to respond to the changing economic landscape and the challenges we’re facing in the way we develop our products and bring them to market.”
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This industry is on its knees
The UK’s a flaming bin bag full of dog turds. The job market is abysmal at the minute and I don’t expect it to get any better.
@nessisonett Is this happening in UK just with IT jobs or in every other aspect of jobs as well? Also, what is the cause, covid/ukraine/inflation in general because I would assume it is not brexit related? This is a legitimate off-character question from an EU citizen with an IT job.
@nessisonett I must state that I have a little bit of a hard time to understand what is going on atm in Uk. Lol. And yeah also a bit curious about the reson behind it hehe.
Now it's looking like they're doing it cause everybody's doing it.
@Czar_Khastik Depends who you ask really. It’s probably a case of “all of the above”. Brexit has got to have had an impact too. Costs
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