Putting Distance Studios, the studio behind the 2022 survival horror and Useless Area non secular successor the Callisto Protocol, has laid off 32 workers in what it is calling a transfer to “realign the studio’s priorities to higher place its present and future tasks for achievement.”
Noticed first by X user @bogorad222 and independently confirmed by IGN, greater than 30 workers had been impacted by the current layoffs.
In an announcement despatched to IGN, a spokesperson for Krafton confirmed the studio had layoffs and that 32 workers had been impacted.
Putting Distance Studios and KRAFTON have carried out strategic adjustments that realign the studio’s priorities to higher place its present and future tasks for achievement. Sadly, these adjustments have impacted 32 workers. Honoring the invaluable contributions of every departing workforce member with materials help within the type of outplacement companies and significant severance packages is our prime precedence throughout this troublesome second.
Putting Distance struggles ahead
Putting Distance was based over three years in the past and is led by Glen Schofield, the creator of Useless Area and co-founder of Sledgehammer Video games. The studio was initially fashioned to create a narrative-driven recreation set within the PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) universe, later revealed as The Callisto Protocol. Nevertheless, in Could 2022, Schofield revealed that The Callisto Protocol now not takes place within the PUBG universe, stating that it “grew into its personal world..”
Des licenciements chez Putting Distance Studios (@sd_studios ), 1 mois après la sortie du dernier DLC de The Callisto Protocol. pic.twitter.com/8sXaHnH7Hp
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Nevertheless, when The Callisto Protocol was launched, it was met with combined critiques and several other points, from efficiency points to studio crunch, and points with crediting folks who labored on the sport. Moreover, it was reported that The Callisto Protocol failed to satisfy the gross sales expectations set forth by Putting Distance Studios’ mum or dad firm Krafton.
In our evaluate of The Callisto Protocol, which we awarded a 7 out of 10, my colleague Tristran Ogilvie mentioned “The Callisto Protocol is a satisfyingly gory non secular successor to the Useless Area collection, nevertheless it’s in the end extra of a putting fashionable mimic than a scary new mutation.”
Taylor is a Reporter at IGN. You possibly can observe her on Twitter @TayNixster.
