Subway Surfers Blast and Indignant Birds Pop developer Outplay Leisure has laid off 21 staff.
The Scottish studio confirmed the information in a electronic mail despatched to MobileGamer.biz and mentioned the layoffs have been made in response to “present enterprise realities.”
“This step was taken to align our operations with present enterprise realities and to assist a strategic shift towards partnering with publishers for future recreation releases,” wrote Outplay CEO Douglas Hare within the electronic mail.
“This was not a call we took calmly. We’re extremely grateful to the proficient people affected, a lot of whom have made lasting contributions to our video games and tradition. We’re doing all the things we are able to to assist them by this transition.”
Outplay was established in 2010 and relies in Dundee. The corporate types itself as the most important unbiased cell studio within the UK and claims its roster of titles has amassed over 160 million downloads thus far. It now joins a refrain of different studios internationally in making layoffs.
These cuts are ceaselessly made to adapt to what corporations typically discuss with as “headwinds” or the “enterprise realities” of an trade that’s nonetheless reckoning with the over-investment and unhealthy bets made by decision-makers through the pandemic.
In latest months, corporations akin to Individuals Can Fly, EA, Niantic, Playtime, Meta, Mighty Yell, Devolver, and PlaySide, Embracer, and Cyan Worlds have all made important cuts. It’s, sadly, a pattern that has change into one thing of a everlasting fixture throughout the online game trade.
