Summary
- Crystal Dynamics is laying off 17 staff in order to “better align our current business needs”.
- The studio is currently working on a new Tomb Raider game, collaborations with Aspyr on Tomb Raider and Legacy Of Kain remasters, and the reboot of Rare’s Perfect Dark in collaboration with The Initiative.
- The latter game, which blends gadgets and improvisation reminiscent of Eidos Montreal’s Deus Ex games, has been highly anticipated.
- It is unclear who has been made redundant, but senior combat designer Mark Vernon appears to have been let go, tweeting that he has been “severed” from employment.
- Amazon Games is publishing the new Tomb Raider, and the licence is currently with Middle-earth Enterprises, one of the entities formed during Embracer’s recent restructuring.
This is the latest in a series of layoffs in the games industry since the lifting of Covid lockdown measures.