Unfortunately, the time of layoffs in the gaming industry is still not over. Fresh news comes from the studio Supermassive Games, which you may know as the creators of the horror adventure games Until Dawn, The Quarry and the anthology The Dark Pictures. The whole studio by official statement undergoing reorganization. Bloomberg specifies in its report that 90 employees are to leave the team.
Supermassive Games should have over 200 employees after the layoffs. Unfortunately, the dismissal in this case is not too surprising given that the latest creations of the studio still could not follow up the quality of the success of Until Dawn, with which it started its horror career in 2015.
As an employer, the studio realizes how unpleasant this situation is for the developers affected by the events. Therefore, he will try to make sure that in any case it happens without any problems for both parties. At the end comes the promise that all future efforts are focused on new games to ensure the sustainability of the studio.
We currently have three projects announced by them. We have to wait this year the third part of the Little Nightmares serieswhich they took over from Tarsier Studios, and The Casting of Frank Stone, stories from the Dead by Daylight universe. They're not even done with their anthology The Dark Pictures. They are preparing another season with the first episode Directive 8020, which takes us into a sci-fi environment. However, we do not yet have detailed information about its release.