DC Universe On-line developer Dimensional Ink Video games and its writer Dawn Recreation Firm have been hit with layoffs.
In response to Kotaku, Dimensional Ink misplaced an unknown variety of senior workers, with Recreation Developer reporting reductions within the artwork, neighborhood, and narrative departments. The workforce is greatest identified for creating the superhero MMO DC Universe On-line. Dawn Video games (previously Sony On-line Leisure) has labored on a number of multiplayer video games, together with EverQuest II, H1Z1, Star Wars Galaxies, and Planetside 2. The precise variety of affected workers from each studios is at the moment unknown.
That is, sadly, the newest of an alarming pattern of sport business layoffs that plagued 2023 and have solely intensified in 2024. Over 5,500 jobs have been reduce inside January alone. Final yr, over 10,000 workers within the video games business or game-adjacent industries had been laid off.
Amongst others this yr, Embracer laid off 97 workers at Deux Ex developer Eidos-Montréal, Destroy All People remake developer Black Forest Video games reportedly laid off 50 workers, Microsoft laid off 1,900 workers throughout its Xbox, Activision Blizzard, and ZeniMax, Outriders studio Folks Can Fly laid off greater than 30 workers, and League of Legends firm Riot Video games laid off 530 workers.
