Gears Of War: E-Day devs People Can Fly cancel two game projects after falling out with unnamed publisher
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Summary
Polish game developer, People Can Fly, laid off staff working on two unnamed projects due to “a lack of communication” from one game’s publisher, and “a lack of prospects for securing organisational resources and funds” for the other.
Projects were codenamed Gemini and Bifrost, the latter suspended in December 2024, resulting in the 120+ staff layoffs.
Gemini, whose publisher was thought to be Square Enix, had previously resulted in the dismissal of 30 staff in January last year.
In April 2024, Project Dagger, a Take-Two Interactive joint venture, was cancelled.
In December that year, another project was shelved, and 120+ staff laid off.
This followed a period of expansion for the company that had seen it take on seven projects and grow to 600 staff as of July 2023.
At that time, the company had collaborated with Epic on Gears of War: Judgment.
This latest round of layoffs follows a trend amongst large developers, with Bethesda, Rockstar, Activision and Microsoft all making redundancy announcements in recent months.
