Supermassive Games Is Delaying Directive 8020 and Laying Off Staff

Supermassive Games is delaying Directive 8020 and laying off staff

Supermassive Games, the developer behind story-driven games like Until Dawn, The Quarry and The Dark Pictures Anthology, is cutting its workforce due to the ongoing "challenging" state of the games industry. The studio says it’s having to adapt its team structure and as a consequence expects to lose up to 36 employees. The current size of the Supermassive’s staff is unclear, but in February last year it cut somewhere in the region of 90 jobs, at…

Supermassive Games Announces Layoffs and Delays Directive 8020

Supermassive Games, the renowned studio behind Until Dawn and The Dark Pictures Anthology, has made a difficult announcement regarding its future. The England-based developer revealed that it is initiating a redundancy consultation process, which is expected to result in up to 36 employees being laid off. The company explained that these measures are a response to the “challenging and ever-evolving environment” of the gaming industry, as it navi…

Supermassive Games announces layoffs of 36 employees and delays Directive 8020 release to 2026

These days, with the closing of the fiscal quarter of many studios and companies, there has been renewed talk of layoffs in the video game industry. One of the studios that has announced staff cuts has been Supermassive Games, creators of Until Dawn (the PS4 original) and The Dark Pictures Anthology, whose next project is Directive 8020, set in deep space. It seems that this downsizing has also affected the game's development, and Directive 802…

Until Dawn developer Supermassive Games set to lay off another 36 employees after a 'redundancy consultation process', delays Directive 8020 to 2026

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