Microsoft introduced final month that it will be reducing 1,900 jobs throughout its total gaming division, with studios throughout Xbox, Activision Blizzard, and Bethesda set to be impacted, and the complete ramifications of that contemporary spherical of mass layoffs are persevering with to come back to mild.
As reported by SF Chronicle, state filings in California have revealed that Activision Blizzard is shedding 86 workers at a studio headquartered in Novato at 4 Hamilton Touchdown- which is the deal with of Toys for Bob’s workplace. Toys for Bob is, after all, the creator of the Skylanders franchise, and has additionally developed Crash Bandicoot and Spyro the Dragon titles, together with, lately, the likes of Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time, Crash Staff Rumble, and Spyro Reignited Trilogy.
Along with shedding a good portion of its workforce, Toys for Bob can be shutting down its workplace. Nevertheless, as reported on Twitter by Home windows Central’s Jez Corden and Seasoned Gaming’s editor-in-chief Ainsley Bowden, the developer isn’t shutting down, with the closure of its bodily workplace suggesting that it is going to be going totally remote- at the least on a brief foundation, till it relocates to a smaller (and presumably cheaper) workplace.
Name of Obligation studio Sledgehammer Video games has additionally lowered its workforce considerably as a part of Microsoft’s layoffs, having let go over 70 of its workers. Beforehand, it was reported that, as a result of layoffs, Blizzard Leisure’s unannounced survival recreation had additionally been cancelled after over six years of improvement.
I additionally obtained affirmation that Toys for Bob is just not closing down. https://t.co/UQzxRzudpf
— Jez (@JezCorden) February 8, 2024
