Lords of the Fallen writer CI Video games has introduced one other spherical of layoffs, with 30 extra staff being let go from the corporate as a part of a restructuring effort that began in January.
In accordance a CI Video games report (which was shared with GamesIndustry.biz), this newest layoff spherical represents a “last, focused spherical of redundancies” and is especially focused at CI Video games’ manufacturing groups.
Which means Hexworks, the inner CI Video games improvement crew that made Lords of the Fallen, is being left intact, which is smart on condition that it racked up over 1,000,000 gross sales inside simply ten days.
In truth, CI Video games’ report says that Hexworks is at the moment onerous at work on what’s at the moment codenamed Mission 3, a brand new motion RPG, though whether or not it is a sequel to Lords of the Fallen stays to be seen.
Mission Survive, one other CI Video games title being labored on by Hexworks’ fellow inner studio Underdog, can also be nonetheless trundling alongside properly; GI.biz says that the studio has been “given an prolonged interval” to complete a vertical slice earlier than full manufacturing begins.
At the moment’s spherical of layoffs represents what CI Video games’ report suggests would be the final redundancies to be carried out as a part of the writer’s current restructuring effort, which it launched into in earnest in January.
That restructuring effort could come as a shock to some on condition that CI Video games lately reported file income, with the corporate bringing in additional than $60 million throughout the 2023 fiscal 12 months, largely owing to the aforementioned success of Lords of the Fallen.
We’ll have to attend and see what Hexworks and its guardian firm provide you with subsequent. Presumably, given Lords of the Fallen‘s success, we shall be seeing a sequel, however we could have to attend a while for it.
Within the meantime, you possibly can seize Lords of the Fallen on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Collection X|S. You’ll be able to check out my assessment right here to see the way it stacks up towards the mountains of different Soulslikes vying to your time.
