Niantic laid off 68 workers after the sale of its video games enterprise to the Saudi funding firm, Scopely, final month. Whereas the layoffs had been already introduced, the precise variety of workers has now been revealed.
As noticed by Game Developer, the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) report revealed in California reveals that at the least 68 folks can be shedding their jobs at Niantic. The layoffs had been processed on March 20 and can be carried out on Could 20.
Final month, Niantic CEO John Hanke announced that the company would split into two separate companies–one now owned by Scopely and the opposite, Niantic Spatial, which is specializing in delivering “the promise of geospatial AI.” Niantic has confirmed to Recreation Developer that Hanke’s announcement was associated to the WARN report, however had nothing else to say concerning the matter.
Because of the break up, Hanke stated that there could be job cuts, however now we all know precisely what number of there can be. Layoffs within the online game business have been occurring rather more ceaselessly over the previous few years, and seemingly present no indicators of slowing down.
Final week, Niantic stated that Pokemon Go would not endure any main adjustments beneath its new management, regardless of players’ worries about Scopely’s reputation for aggressive monetization.