Half of the developers of the Destroy All Humans remake have been fired! Reviews also in People Can Fly – INDIAN

When 2023 ended, a new year began. The number of people laid off in the video game world is growing every day. Swedish colossus Hug group continues extensive restructuring after years of acquisitions. Kotaku just discovered that the divisions are firing the creators of the Gothic, Risen and Elex series after the coup. THQ Nordic also in the German studio Black Forest Games. About half of the employees will lose their jobs.

Black Forest Games reportedly had 110 employees in 2023. Anecdotal evidence suggests that creative directors and most (if not all) managers retained their positions. So, once again, ordinary developers took it away.

In recent years, the studio has created remakes of Destroy All Humans! and is working on an action RPG Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin. It is inspired by the 2020 comic book series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin. It is supposed to be a darker and more mature take on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. But the question is what will happen with this title. Previously, Embracer said that layoffs and cancellations of projects/research will mainly affect unannounced projects that are not promising enough.

Yesterday more than 30 people from the Polish company were fired People can fly (authors of Gears of War: Judgment, Bulletstorm and Outriders). People from the team working on the as-yet unannounced game under the code name have lost their jobs Project Geminiwhich he will publish Enix Square. This is due to budget cuts and scale limitations. Another 20 developers will move on to other People Can Fly projects.

If earlier information is correct, Project Gemini will be released in 2026. In addition to it, People Can Fly is being created. game in collaboration with Xbox Game Studios. This project is based on an unidentified brand owned by Microsoft. There are speculations about Gears of War remake (this collection of dreams?). The budget for this project is between 30 and 50 million dollars. He’s still ambitious here Project Dagger, which Take-Two got rid of last September. At that time, the game had been in development for two years, and the management of the Polish company wanted to finish it themselves.