Desires and LittleBigPlanet developer Media Molecule is to put off 15-20% of its workers, in accordance with a brand new report.
Sports activities Illustrated‘s GLHF says the studio held an inside assembly in the present day and instructed workers that it deliberate to put off round 20 of its 135 staff.
The information comes a month after Media Molecule ended assist for Desires, which was launched in early entry in April 2019 earlier than formally launching in February 2020.
In an article posted on the sport’s official web site earlier this yr, the studio defined it had “made the troublesome resolution to discontinue reside assist for Desires after September 1, 2023 to shift our focus to an thrilling new venture”.
Gamers are nonetheless capable of play, create and share content material on the sport, however it is going to be receiving no additional updates. Gamers additionally now have a 5GB storage restrict for any new creations.
The Media Molecule layoffs are the most recent in an extended string of mass layoffs going down throughout the video games business this yr.
Earlier this month it was reported that Telltale Video games laid off quite a lot of staff, and that Team17 is planning “vital” job losses as a part of an organization restructure. Final month it was introduced that Epic Video games could be shedding 16% of its workers, consisting of “round 830 staff”.
Earlier this yr Microsoft confirmed plans to put off roughly 10,000 staff, together with some at Xbox and Bethesda.
CD Projekt Purple additionally introduced plans in July to put off round 10% of its workers, with CD Projekt CEO Adam Kiciński stating that the corporate needs to have “groups which can be extra agile and more practical”.
Layoffs have additionally lately been occurring at quite a lot of different firms, together with Unity, Riot Video games, Blizzard, Crystal Dynamics, Bioware and The Callisto Protocol studio Hanging Distance.
