{"id":39396,"date":"2023-07-17T18:07:25","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T18:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/17\/niantic-lays-off-230-employees-shutting-down-la-studio\/"},"modified":"2023-07-18T02:26:26","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T02:26:26","slug":"niantic-lays-off-230-employees-shutting-down-la-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/17\/niantic-lays-off-230-employees-shutting-down-la-studio\/","title":{"rendered":"Niantic Lays Off 230 Workers, Shutting Down LA Studio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><em>Pok\u00e9mon GO<\/em> to grow to be high precedence.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"masthead aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nintendojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/PokemonGo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Pok\u00e9mon GO<\/em>\u00a0developer Niantic has closed it\u2019s LA Studio, leading to 230 job losses. CEO John Hanke despatched an electronic mail to his staff stating, \u201cI&#8217;ve made the choice to slim our focus for cellular sport investments. Particularly, this implies we shall be closing our LA studio, decreasing our sport platform workforce, and making extra reductions throughout the corporate\u2026 This implies we&#8217;re shedding round 230 Niantics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Along with this, <em>NBA All-World<\/em> will shut, and manufacturing will stop for <em>Marvel: World of Heroes<\/em> as Niantic needs to proceed to assist Pok\u00e9mon Go. \u201cThe highest precedence is to maintain <em>Pok\u00e9mon GO<\/em>\u00a0wholesome and rising as a eternally sport, whereas we made some changes to the <em>Pok\u00e9mon GO<\/em>\u00a0workforce, our funding within the product and workforce continues to develop.\u201d mentioned Hanke.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-195338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nintendojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Pokemon-GO-Beyond-2020-587x360.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"587\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nintendojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Pokemon-GO-Beyond-2020-587x360.jpg 587w, https:\/\/www.nintendojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Pokemon-GO-Beyond-2020-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nintendojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Pokemon-GO-Beyond-2020-768x471.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nintendojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Pokemon-GO-Beyond-2020.jpg 949w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 587px) 100vw, 587px\" \/><\/center><em>Pok\u00e9mon GO<\/em>\u00a0has been broadly profitable since its 2016 launch, but it surely has has been concerned with quite a few group controversies, one in all which concerned reverting an expanded spawn radius that was favored by gamers. Different Niantic tasks, from Harry Potter to <em>Pikmin Bloom<\/em>, haven&#8217;t reached an analogous quantity of recognition.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from <em>Pok\u00e9mon GO, <\/em>Niantic will proceed to work on <em>Pikmin Bloom<\/em>, <em>Peridot<\/em>, and the upcoming <em>Monster Hunter Now<\/em>. Additionally it is constructing in direction of growing blended actuality gadgets and AR glasses.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Supply:\u00a0<\/strong>GamesIndustry.biz<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendojo.com\/news\/niantic-lays-off-230-employees-shutting-down-la-studio\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Pok\u00e9mon GO to grow to be high precedence. Pok\u00e9mon GO\u00a0developer Niantic has closed it\u2019s LA Studio, leading to 230 job losses. CEO John Hanke despatched an electronic mail to his staff stating, \u201cI&#8217;ve made the choice to slim our focus for cellular sport investments. Particularly, this implies we shall be closing our LA studio, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6362,11048,9594,7109,1258],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39397,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39396\/revisions\/39397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}