Even with out Embracer Group shedding a whole lot of workers and shutting studios, 2023 would nonetheless be remembered as a 12 months of layoffs for the video games trade.
However Embracer Group has definitely made it really feel lots worse, and there’s been no signal sadly that the bleeding will cease anytime quickly.
Every thing beneath Embracer Group is on the danger of struggling layoffs or being solely closed down, and that features Timesplitters developer Free Radical Design, a crew that was solely revived two years in the past, and Embracer doesn’t deny this.
When requested instantly about Free Radical’s destiny, and if it might shut, chief government officer Lars Wingefors mentioned “On the whole, I can say that there are numerous conditions in workplaces world wide that may probably result in a restructuring.”
“Then it’s a must to conduct a union negotiation or take different authorized measures to finish one thing. This dialogue can not happen. That’s my reply.”
Wingefors doesn’t say they are going to be closing, however what’s necessary is that he doesn’t deny that it might, leaving the chance open.
This isn’t precisely how followers pictured issues would go for Free Radical Design after it was triumphantly restored, because of Embracer Group.
Hopefully this doesn’t come to go, and Free Radical can survive the cuts that haven’t stopped coming.
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