Social media has lit up with experiences of layoffs at Humble Video games, the publishing arm of Humble Bundle, at present owned by Ziff Davis by way of its subsidiary IGN Leisure. Whereas the story remains to be growing, a consultant from Humble Video games has instructed GameIndustry.biz that the corporate is present process restructuring.

Nicola Kwan, enterprise developer at Humble Video games, posted on Linkedin that 36 workers misplaced their jobs. “All 36 workers of Humble Video games have been instructed that we have been being let go and that the corporate is shutting down,” learn Kwan’s publish.

Nevertheless, in an announcement Humble Video games supplied to GamesIndustry.biz, the corporate says:

“In these difficult financial occasions for indie sport publishing, Humble Video games has made the tough however needed determination to restructure our operations. This determination was not made flippantly; it concerned a lot deliberation and cautious thought, with the aim of making certain the soundness and help of our builders and ongoing initiatives. Moreover, the restructuring of operations at Humble Video games may have no affect on operations at Humble Bundle.”

“Restructuring” can generally simply be one other phrase for “substantial layoffs,” however it seems as if IGN Leisure intends to maintain the corporate stepping into some kind. Humble Video games said that they plan on persevering with to help the builders below their label, which appears to indicate some continuation of the enterprise. 

Nevertheless, builders behind video games printed by the corporate, comparable to Signalis and Unsighted, appear to have not been knowledgeable of the choice beforehand. There are some questions concerning the listings for his or her video games, as lots of these below the shuttered label, Grownup Swim Video games, confronted delisting earlier this yr. Through Twitter, Tiana Pixel of Studio Pixel Punk stated, “Who’s gonna hold the shop pages up? We don’t know but.”

There are a number of questions remaining that weren’t addressed in Humble Video games’ assertion. Nevertheless, the layoffs on the firm are among the many hundreds which have hit the trade with seemingly no finish in sight.