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Scott Duwe

Metroid, Castlevania dev hit with layoffs just 2 days before its latest game launches

Metroid Dread studio MercurySteam has been hit with a round of layoffs, the indie dev revealed earlier today.

The Madrid-based studio announced the news in a LinkedIn post where it described the layoffs as "a workforce adjustment process," marking the most unique and corporate way of describing people losing their jobs that I've seen in a while, and one that just doesn't sit very well in my stomach.

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