A wave of layoffs continues to sweep the video game industry. The latest victims are employees of an Italian company Digital Brotherswho owns 505 games. The publishing division includes the creators of the series. Assetto Corsa by Kunos Simulazioni and studio Brno In Gamewhat led to the robbery Crime Boss: Rockey City with Hollywood stars.
Digital Bros will lay off about 30% of its employees as part of the restructuring. They must be the reason demanding clients. In the wake of the global pandemic, gamers are looking for established brands and playing games longer than before. “We must adapt to the changing business environment” the company claims. In other words, gamers should prefer sequels and remakes to new brands.
In light of these changes, the company revised its publishing plans and intends to focus on its successful brands. Therefore, it adjusts its structure and frees itself. Therefore, some projects that are not expected to be a big success may also be cancelled.
According to our information, the situation at Ingame Studios is good and the team continues to support Crime Boss. The game is available for PC (Epic Games Store), PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S.
In addition to the aforementioned studios, Digital Bros also owns Avantgarden (developers of Last Day of June), Nesting Games (a new Canadian team creating single-player role-playing games), Supernova Games (creating an innovative game), Infinity Plus Two (Puzzle Quest 3) and has a stake in Starbreeze Studios (Payday).
Publisher 505 Games has released, for example, the PC version of Death Stranding from Hideo Kojima, Ghostrunner or Control from Remedy. He is also collaborating with the Finnish studio on the console versions of the co-op project Condor for Control 2.
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Source :Indian TV
