Final month, Embracer Group CEO Lars Wingefors assured that the corporate’s restructuring efforts, which noticed it shut down a number of studios and lay off roughly 27% of its employees, had ended and had “created a stronger basis for improved profitability, money flows and long-term worth creation.” But as of at this time, Embracer has closed Items Interactive, the developer behind this yr’s Alone within the Darkish remake.

Though there’s been no announcement by Embracer itself, Items Interactive has confirmed its closure on its personal web site. The studio was based in 2007 and, in its 17-year historical past, launched over 10 video games. After working with THQ on the second growth for motion RPG Titan Quest, it was acquired by Embracer (THQ’s father or mother firm) in 2017. Below Embracer, it dealt with one other Titan Quest growth after which the aforementioned remake of the unique Alone within the Darkish from 1992, which launched this previous March.

No motive has been given for Items Interactive’s closure, but it surely must be famous that the Alone within the Darkish remake was apparently not an enormous hit for Embracer. There are not any actual gross sales figures however, in Embracer’s report on its 2024 fiscal yr, it mentioned Alone within the Darkish “noticed a optimistic reception from customers, however a blended reception
from critics and finally carried out beneath administration expectations.” Regardless, the shut down of Items Interactive is one other contributor to the already dire variety of video games business layoffs to have taken place this yr.

Different studios to have been closed by Embracer previously yr or so embrace Saints Row developer Volition and Free Radical, which was within the course of of creating a brand new Timesplitters. Others, reminiscent of Eidos-Montréal, had been impacted by layoffs, whereas Gearbox and Saber Interactive have been bought off. Regardless of the layoffs, Embracer intends to launch 70 tasks (which incorporates DLC) by the top of March 2025. It is going to even be splitting itself into three separate corporations, although none of them will hold the Embracer Group title.