Embracer's scythe continues to swing in the wake of a collapsed $2 billion deal, and the latest victim, reportedly, is Zen Studios. According to Videogamelayoffs, one of its sources at the Hungarian studio told it that 32 staffers at the Pinball FX studio were laid off last โปรโมชั่นสล็อต Friday.
Acquired by Embracer subsidiary Saber Interactive in 2020, these reports would make Zen the latest in a long line of layoffs across Embracer's many, many studios. This year alone has seen 26 staff lose their jobs U31 com at Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition company Beamdog and the wholesale closure of Saints Row maker Volition, a studio with 30 years of history behind it. More are likely to come, if the company's foreboding talk of a "comprehensive" restructuring earlier in the year is to be believed.
If there's a glimmer of hope to be had here, it's that the CDPR layoffs were at least followed by the formation of the Polish Gamedev Workers Union, which is open to devs across Poland and which believes that "mass lay-offs are a danger to the gamedev industry."
A GI.biz reporter reached out to Embracer for comment on this story, and received a fairly boilerplate response that the company doesn't comment on specific studios, though it did reiterate that its restructuring program involves "the closing of studios". I've reached out to Zen Studios as well as Embracer (hey, you never know) and I'll update this piece if I extract any more blood from that stone.