In what’s already been a loopy 2023, it seems one other massive studio has undergone layoffs. An e-mail despatched to Bungie staff from Bungie CEO Pete Parsons indicated employees could be “listening to some information in the present day” and {that a} group assembly scheduled for later would “talk about in the present day’s occasions”. Jason Schreier at Bloomberg noticed and reported the circulating e-mail.

As of now the precise variety of staff affected by the layoffs is unknown, however Twitter is already stuffed with Bungie staff sharing the information that they’ve been laid off.

“I’ve been laid off from Bungie. A surreal factor to write down as I sit right here pondering what went fallacious. I’m nonetheless processing all of it and whereas my first intuition is anger I do know I’d remorse what I’d say. Thanks to everybody at Bungie who helped make my final 5+ years the very best ever.”

– Griffin Bennett, Social Media Lead at Bungie

In keeping with Bloomberg, staff additionally indicated delays throughout the board at Bungie. Upcoming Future 2 growth The Remaining Form has been pushed from February 2024 to June 2024. Additionally, Bungie’s subsequent sport, a sci-fi extraction shooter titled Marathon has been delayed to 2025.

Bungie joins an enormous checklist of studios which have minimize staff this yr, which has led to one of many extra tumultuous waves of layoffs the business has seen shortly. The rising checklist contains Epic Video games, Placing Distance Studios, CD Projekt Pink, a number of studios owned by Embracer Group together with Beamdog and Crystal Dynamics, Ubisoft, BioWare, Relic, Riot, Firaxis, Microsoft, Twitch, Naughty Canine, and Team17. This yr has additionally seen the shutdown of a number of studios together with Dang!, PixelOpus, Vanpool, and Volition Video games.