Throughout 2023, we have mentioned that currently studios and development teams are undergoing changes in their commercial structures and policies, which are generating several waves of layoffs in some of them which strongly attract the be careful, as is the case with what happened at Microsoft, lay off nearly 2,000 employees from its gaming sector, among many others who have experienced the same thing and whom we have mentioned in previous news on the web.
Without going any further, the Eidos Montreal studio, in charge of titles like Deus Ex or the last trilogy of the Tomb Raider saga, has suffered several layoffs and cancellations of projects it had in the future, all of which suggests that this year does not seem to be any different, Unfortunately today it was confirmed that the studio in charge of the development of the WWE and NBA sagas, Visual Concepts Austin, has suffered new cuts from its publisher 2K Games, this news was known because one of the people involved, Brad Browling, spoke in Linkedin commenting on this situation and clearly expressing his pain in the face of this situation.
I’ve had a great time over the last few years working with some of the best game developers in the industry, over 23 years creating video game artwork, I’ve seen some slumps, but nothing like this.
2K Games has not yet commented to clarify the situation
At this time, the total number of people affected by this situation is unknown and Publisher 2K Games also hasn’t given any explanation as to what happened.Note that in the last 6 months, this is the second time that Visual Concepts has suffered layoffs of this type. On top of that, a scandal has recently been added to the latest WWE title and Brock Lesnar, one of the legendary wrestlers who will apparently no longer appear on the cover of the title in its version WWE 2K24 Forty Years of WrestleMania.
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To close the unfortunate news, of course we give you all our Xbox generation support and hope that you can find a new position to continue displaying all your experience, we must keep in mind that these situations, apparently, will continue to happen throughout the year We hope this doesn’t continue to affect the industry, because it has some really, really talented people and this affects us all.
