After shedding 20% of its employees early in 2024, Life Is Strange: Double Exposure studio Deck Nine has introduced that it has been hit with extra layoffs to finish the yr.
In a press release posted to X/Twitter, Deck Nine Games CEO Mark Lyons wrote they’d should “say goodbye to a few of our gifted group members,” however did not specify what number of could be affected by the cuts.
— Deck Nine Games (@DeckNineGames) December 6, 2024
“This was an especially troublesome determination and displays the difficult occasions many firms in our business are at the moment going through,” Lyons wrote. “We are extraordinarily grateful to each particular person who has devoted their exhausting work, ardour and dedication to creating transformative leisure with us.”
Deck Nine, which can be behind Life Is Strange entries Before the Storm and True Colors in addition to The Expanse: A Telltale Series, launched Double Exposure to optimistic evaluations (IGN gave it a 9/10) on the finish of October. The studio, nonetheless, has been plagued with points earlier than at this time’s layoffs; earlier this yr, we at IGN ran an intensive report about its inside struggles with toxicity, hate speech, crunch, and extra.
Deck Nine introduced the final spherical of layoffs in February. Prior to these layoffs, IGN understood the studio employed roughly between 100 and 130 staffers. It’s unclear what number of stay after the 2 rounds of layoffs this yr. Deck Nine laid off around 30 employees in May 2023 as effectively.
The authentic developer of Life Is Strange, Don’t Nod, additionally introduced layoffs in October after canceling two in-development initiatives amid a reorganization.
Today’s Deck Nine announcement is sadly solely the most recent layoff information to hit the video games business because the yr wraps up. Earlier this week, Ubisoft revealed that it might be shutting down two manufacturing studios and shedding 277 workers within the course of.
Alex Stedman is a Senior News Editor with IGN, overseeing leisure reporting. When she’s not writing or modifying, yow will discover her studying fantasy novels or taking part in Dungeons & Dragons.
