Civilization and XCOM studio Firaxis has been struck by a round of layoffs, Axios reports. Around 30 developers at the company have lost their jobs so that Firaxis can perform a "sharpening of focus, enhancements of efficiencies, and an alignment of our talent against our highest priorities," which I'm pretty certain is just a hyper-corporate way of saying 'we need to spend less money'.
Naturally, Firaxis hasn't blamed anything in particular for the round of layoffs, but it's not hard to see what might have prompted the company to start reconsidering its focus and cutting costs. Marvel's Midnight Suns—for all its superhero star power—was a commercial failure, and the studio recently lost one of its most recognisable creative leads with the departure of Jake Solomon, who headed that project.
