DC Universe On-line Developer And Writer Endure Layoffs

  DC Universe On-line developer Dimensional Ink Video games and its writer Dawn Sport Firm have been hit with layoffs. 

In keeping with Kotaku, Dimensional Ink misplaced an unknown variety of senior employees, with Sport Developer reporting reductions within the artwork, group, and narrative departments. The staff is finest identified for creating the superhero MMO DC Universe On-line. Dawn Video games (previously Sony On-line Leisure) has labored on a number of multiplayer video games, together with EverQuest II, H1Z1, Star Wars Galaxies, and Planetside 2. The precise variety of affected staff from each studios is at present unknown. 

That is, sadly, the most recent of an alarming pattern of sport business layoffs that plagued 2023 and have solely intensified in 2024. Over 5,500 jobs have been reduce inside January alone. Final 12 months, over 10,000 staff within the video games business or game-adjacent industries have been laid off. 

Amongst others this 12 months, Embracer laid off 97 staff at Deux Ex developer Eidos-Montréal, Destroy All People remake developer Black Forest Video games reportedly laid off 50 staff, Microsoft laid off 1,900 staff throughout its Xbox, Activision Blizzard, and ZeniMax, Outriders studio Folks Can Fly laid off greater than 30 staff, and League of Legends firm Riot Video games laid off 530 staff.

Supply: Sport Informer

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