Ruiner developer Reikon Games has reportedly laid off 60 to 70 folks, or roughly 80% of its workforce, according to Kotaku.
Kotaku’s report is backed up by a handful of social media reports from former Reikon developers saying they had lost their jobs this week. IGN has reached out to Reikon Games for remark.
Reikon Games was beforehand accountable for the isometric shooter Ruiner, which obtained typically optimistic critiques upon its 2017 launch. In 2021, the studio started teasing its subsequent challenge dubbed Codename: Remaining Type, which was deliberate to be revealed beneath Plaion (owned by Embracer Group)’s Prime Matter label.
Reikon’s layoffs come on the similar day as a mass layoff of 1900 from Microsoft’s video games division, which itself is occurring in the midst of an ongoing maelstrom of trade layoffs. An estimated 10,000 developers have been impacted final 12 months, and already in the first month of 2024 Kotaku’s ongoing tracker estimates almost 6000 builders have been let go. In recent interviews, some trade leaders urged that the state of affairs will stay dire for months to return.
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