Virtuos helped make one of the year's best-selling video games. Now, 300 of its workers may be out of a job

The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered (Credit: Bethesda Game Studios)

• Virtuos, which helped develop The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered, one of the best-selling video games of 2025, is reportedly conducting layoffs that will affect 7% of its global staff, or around 300 people. Virtuos has contributed to many of the world’s most popular video games, including Fortnite.

Virtuos, the game-development studio that developed one of this year’s best-selling video games, The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered, is reportedly laying off about 7% of its staff, which comes out to about 300 employees. The news comes courtesy of Gauthier Andres, a journalist and co-founder of the French video-game website Origami.