Eidos-Montreal Lets Go Extra Employees With Extra Layoffs Deliberate

Eidos-Montreal, the studio identified for growing Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy and supporting video games like Tomb Raider and others, has had extra layoffs.

Over the final week, a lot of now former staff took to LinkedIn to announce that they have been not with the corporate.

“Hey there!” gameplay director Samuel Daher wrote. “Was working at Eidos, loved it and would have stayed, but times are difficult.”

In complete, at the very least a dozen or extra individuals are actually searching for work. This is the second identified wave of job cuts on the studio after 75 individuals have been let return in March. At the time, it was mentioned that the layoffs have been achieved resulting from “mandates coming to an end”.

And whereas one would hope that the newest layoffs are the tip, that doesn’t seem like the case. In latest days, a number of sources have defined to Insider Gaming most tasks on the studio have been cancelled. The focus for Eidos-Montreal proper now, they are saying, is on the work it’s doing with Microsoft and Xbox on video games like Grounded 2 and Fable. There’s additionally one other inner challenge that began improvement in 2019 which, sources say, has no manner of recouping its present prices.

After these tasks wrap, nonetheless, “additional staff reductions are already forecasted.”

Insider Gaming has tried to achieve out to each Eidos-Montreal and its guardian firm Embracer for remark. As of writing, no responses have been obtained. In the previous, Embracer has usually declined to offer an official touch upon topics comparable to layoffs and inner improvement tasks.

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