DC Universe Online developer Dimensional Ink Games and its writer Daybreak Game Company have been hit with layoffs.
According to Kotaku, Dimensional Ink misplaced an unknown variety of senior employees, with Game Developer reporting reductions within the artwork, neighborhood, and narrative departments. The workforce is greatest recognized for growing the superhero MMO DC Universe Online. Daybreak Games (previously Sony Online Entertainment) 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 presently unknown.
This is, sadly, the newest of an alarming pattern of recreation business layoffs that plagued 2023 and have solely intensified in 2024. Over 5,500 jobs have been lower inside January alone. Last yr, over 10,000 staff within the video games business or game-adjacent industries have been laid off.
Among others this yr, Embracer laid off 97 staff at Deux Ex developer Eidos-Montréal, Destroy All Humans remake developer Black Forest Games reportedly laid off 50 staff, Microsoft laid off 1,900 staff throughout its Xbox, Activision Blizzard, and ZeniMax, Outriders studio People Can Fly laid off greater than 30 staff, and League of Legends firm Riot Games laid off 530 staff.
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