Build a Rocket Boy has reportedly made an unconfirmed variety of layoffs.
The Edinburgh-based studio, which is helmed by former Grand Theft Auto producer Leslie Benzies, introduced the workers cuts internally on Monday, in keeping with a PCGamesN supply.
While it’s unclear what number of workers are being let go, the positioning claims that the layoffs notably have an effect on the studio’s publishing division, high quality assurance and artwork groups.
They’re reportedly unfold throughout Build a Rocket Boy’s three areas, which additionally embody places of work in Budapest, Hungary, and Montpellier, France
VGC has contacted Build a Rocket Boy for touch upon this report.
The studio introduced final month that it had closed on an over $110 million Series D fundraising spherical.
“The new capital will allow Build A Rocket Boy to launch its three flagship merchandise: immersive gaming and leisure open world platform Everywhere, AAA recreation collection MindsEye, and suite of easy-to-use UGC design instruments referred to as Arcadia,” it mentioned.
Game developer Farhan Noor, who has been monitoring job cuts relationship again to the beginning of 2023 on videogameslayoffs.com, estimates that round 10,500 video games business workers had been laid off final yr. And lower than two months into 2024, some 6,000 deliberate jobs cuts are already thought to have been confirmed.
The newest GDC State of the Game Industry survey discovered that round a 3rd of builders had been impacted by layoffs at their office over the 12 months resulted in October 2023.
Asked how involved they had been about layoffs over the next 12 months to October 2024, 14% of the 3000+ respondents mentioned they had been very involved, 16% mentioned they had been considerably involved, and 26% mentioned they had been barely involved.
