The videogame industry has been suffering a malaise since the start of 2023 that somehow still shows no sign of abating. September alone saw people put out of work at Mountaintop Studios, Airship Syndicate, Evening Star, Microsoft, Midnight Society, Lost Boys Interactive, Ballistic Moon, and Rocksteady. Now it's October 1 and here we go again: Hi-Rez Studios CEO Stewart Chisam has announced the "difficult but necessary" layoff of an unspecified number of employees, saying the cuts were made "to ensure Hi-Rez's long-term success."
The layoffs are being made "across Hi-Rez," Chisam wrote on X, but "will disproportionately impact those in marketing and publishing roles, as well as some from our Evil Mojo, G&A, and Titan Forge divisions. The game team roles impacted disproportionally affect our team working on cosmetic skin content and system features."
