Spanish growth studio Tequila Works has made a “small” variety of layoffs.
It mentioned the transfer adopted the choice to cancel an unannounced mission that had been in growth on the Madrid-based outfit.
“With deep remorse, we should inform of the choice to cancel an unannounced recreation,” Tequila Works mentioned in a LinkedIn put up.
“This robust determination means we shall be restructuring the studio to focus on the event of just one recreation. These modifications will have an effect to a small variety of roles on the studio.
“That is an extremely troublesome time, and our focus is to offer the assist and steering to these affected,” it added.
Tequila Works was based in 2009 and its debut recreation was 2012’s Deadlight. Notable releases within the years since have included 2017’s Rime and The Attractive Brutale, and 2019’s Gylt.
Tencent grew to become the corporate’s majority shareholder in 2022, when Tequila mentioned the funding could be used to gasoline studio development for the event of unique IPs.
Its most up-to-date recreation was final 12 months’s Music of Nunu: A League of Legends Story, which was launched underneath the now defunct Riot Forge publishing label.
Recreation developer Farhan Noor, who has been monitoring job cuts on videogameslayoffs.com, estimates that round 13,000 video games business workers have been laid off thus far this 12 months – up from a complete of 10,500 in 2023.
