Embracer Group is a online game firm which owns over 70 studios around the globe. Issues haven’t been trying good for its studios these days, as they’ve been affected by layoffs and closures.

The following studio to satisfy this destiny is Crystal Dynamics which is the staff behind the Tomb Raider Survivor trilogy. It’s at present creating the following Tomb Raider recreation which will likely be printed by Amazon.

On Twitter, the studio introduced that it needed to half methods with 9 model/advertising workers, in addition to an IT worker. In accordance with LinkedIn, the studio has 201 to 500 workers. Crystal Dynamics states that the troublesome alternative was made to align the studio with its present enterprise wants.

A few of the ex-employees affected by the layoffs have recognized themselves (as Eurogamer stories), together with senior model supervisor Nicholas Edwards who revealed on LinkedIn that he’s not working at Crystal Dynamics.

Embracer Group is altering its enterprise technique

Embracer Group had been on a shopping for spree, however that has come to a halt. As revealed in an open letter, it’s now targeted on changing into a extremely cash-flow generative enterprise. The consequence of this has been the closure of studios like Volition and layoffs in studios reminiscent of Beamdog.

It seems that not even Embracer’s largest studios are secure, as there have been stories of the corporate displaying curiosity in promoting off Gearbox, the studio behind Borderlands. This leaves us with uncertainty concerning all of Embracer’s studios.