Palia developer Singularity 6 has laid off 36 workers.
The most recent cuts on the Los Angeles-based studio observe one other spherical of layoffs which noticed 49 workers lose their jobs in April, in accordance with Polygon’s Nicole Carpenter.
“Sadly we now have needed to restructure and scale back the scale of our crew as we keep centered on supporting Palia and serving our neighborhood long run,” reads an announcement issued to Sport Developer by a Singularity 6 spokesperson.
“We thank our departing crew for all their work; we’re dedicated to offering one of the best help and transition we will. We hope the business will present houses for these proficient colleagues.”
Free-to-play, cozy sim MMO recreation Palia was launched for Nintendo Change in December 2023 and hit Steam in March, six months after an open beta launched on PC. The sport options cross-play and cross-progression.
It’s been one other unhealthy week for job losses throughout the video games business. On Monday, Japanese Remaining Fantasy writer Sq. Enix introduced plans to make layoffs in American and Europe.
Canada-based Dauntless and Fae Farm developer Phoenix Labs additionally reportedly lower round 140 jobs this week.
Sport developer Farhan Noor, who has been monitoring job cuts relationship again to the beginning of 2022 on videogameslayoffs.com, estimates that round 10,500 video games business workers have been laid off final yr. And fewer than 5 months into 2024, some 9,700 jobs cuts are already thought to have been confirmed.
