What you’ll want to know
- Relic Entertainment is a studio beneath Sega Europe that has labored on video games like Dawn of War, in addition to co-developing Age of Empires 4 with Xbox studio World’s Edge.
- Relic Entertainment’s most up-to-date recreation, Company of Heroes 3, was launched again in February.
- Relic Entertainment goes via layoffs, with 121 staff being laid off.
If you might be bored with listening to about recreation studios and publishers going via layoffs, brace your self, as a result of there’s extra dangerous information.
Relic Entertainment shared on Tuesday by way of Twitter that 121 staff are being let go from the studio in what was described as an “extremely troublesome” determination with blame positioned on “exterior elements” and no different particulars. Prior to the layoffs, Relic Entertainment had over 300 staff.
Relic Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sega’s Europe division, beforehand labored on quite a lot of video games equivalent to the unique Homeworld video games, the Dawn of War and Company of Heroes franchises, and extra. More lately, the group co-developed Age of Empires 4 with World’s Edge beneath Xbox Game Studios. The recreation launched on Windows PC again in 2021, with an Xbox console model presently in improvement and slated to launch later this yr.
These layoffs come on the again of a turbulent previous a number of months, with huge layoffs in gaming and tech throughout Apple, Amazon, CD Projekt RED, Deck Nine Games, Electronic Arts, Microsoft, Sony, and lots of others.
Windows Central’s take
Obviously, my ideas are with the 121 staff who have been laid off. That is a large minimize, and I actually hope everybody affected can land on their ft.
Outside of that, I’m actually, actually, actually bored with listening to about layoffs. I perceive that typically there’s merely no different as a result of a venture has gone unsuitable or an organization is not earning profits, however that hasn’t been the case for a large number of the businesses which have been all-too-eager to make cuts.
