Lords of the Fallen writer CI Video games has introduced one other spherical of layoffs, with 30 extra workers 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 “remaining, focused spherical of redundancies” and is principally focused at CI Video games’ manufacturing groups.
Which means that Hexworks, the interior CI Video games improvement workforce that made Lords of the Fallen, is being left intact, which is smart provided 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 laborious 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 inside 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 applied as a part of the writer’s latest restructuring effort, which it launched into in earnest in January.
That restructuring effort might come as a shock to some provided that CI Video games not too long ago reported file income, with the corporate bringing in additional than $60 million through 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 will likely be seeing a sequel, however we might have to attend a while for it.
Within the meantime, you may seize Lords of the Fallen on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Sequence X|S. You may check out my overview right here to see the way it stacks up towards the mountains of different Soulslikes vying on your time.
