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Harvey Randall

Until Dawn developer Supermassive Games set to lay off another 36 employees after a 'redundancy consultation process', delays Directive 8020 to 2026

Directive 8020 sci-fi horror.

Supermassive, developer of Until Dawn and Little Nightmares, is set to lay off another 36 employees before the release of Directive 8020, which is now being delayed to 2026. While the game itself looks interesting, trading the Wendigo for Ridley-esque alien horrors, there'll be around three dozen staff not making it to launch day.

That's per a post to X, and—look, you don't need to tell me that the industry's a nightmare, unless this is the first news article you've read in 20 years. In which case, welcome back and I'm sorry. Still, Supermassive's using traditionally frustrating language to inform the public it's laying people off. Take a look:

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