Make a game that doesn’t sell? Laid off. Make one of the best-selling games of the year? Would you believe it, also laid off.
Gauthier ‚Gautoz‘ Andres, co-founder of French videogame website Origami, has reported on Bluesky that „Mass layoffs are underway at Virtuos, the studio behind Oblivion Remastered and the upcoming Metal Gear Solid Δ.“
Virtuos is a co-development studio that has contributed to everything from Dark Souls Remastered to Age of Mythology Retold, and is currently working with CD Projekt Red on the neverending cycle of Cyberpunk 2077 updates. It’s got offices around the world and apparently enough staff that the 300 people Andres reports are at risk make up only „7% of the workforce“.
