2023-11-16 21:00:00
The ongoing layoffs in the video game industry show no sign of stopping. Not only do employees of the… TimeSplitters-Studios Free Radical Design fear for their jobs, too Unity announced planned layoffs. Now it’s time Digital Bros and announces that the company is also short Cut 30 percent of their jobs want. Digital Bros is a publisher that is subordinate to the studio 505 Games, which published Control, among other things.
However, 505 Games is not said to be affected by the layoffs; instead, it affects the Assetto Corsa studio Kunos Simulazioni and DR Studios, which, among other things, is responsible for Terraria are responsible. The layoffs are part of a “restructuring program“ and will “revise the organizational structure in order to adapt it to the evolving competitive environment in the medium to long term and to ensure maximum operational efficiency.” The group announced this in a press release. There it says:
news/505-games-owner-digital-bros-has-announced-plans-to-cut-30-of-its-workforce/">The video game market has evolved since the pandemic to be more selective regarding new games, with consumers increasingly relying on well-established intellectual properties and playing the same games over longer periods of time.
Digital Bros’ strategy has had to adapt to this new and evolving competitive scenario and in the future will focus on releasing sequels and new versions of already successful and established games, with a limited number of new productions with larger budgets.
In order to give priority to high quality and long-standing successful titles, Digital Bros has reconsidered the number of projects in development and will accordingly revise the organizational structure to adapt it to the evolving competitive environment in the medium to long term and to ensure maximum operational efficiency .
The restructuring program is expected to result in a reduction of approximately 30 percent of the global workforce, with the majority attributable to the studios.
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We hope that the employees of the two Italian studios will quickly find new employment.
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