Just Cause Creator’s Studio Liquid Swords Announces Layoffs

Liquid Swords, the studio based by Simply Trigger franchise creator Christofer Sundberg, has introduced a spherical of layoffs, making it the most recent NetEase studio to be hit by funding cuts or downsizing efforts.

In a message on the official Liquid Swords web site, the studio says the layoffs are a part of “an effort to cut back operations and adapt to present enterprise situations”, which is turning into an more and more frequent chorus throughout the trade.

Liquid Swords goes on to say that the layoffs will go in direction of guaranteeing the studio’s “long-term sustainability” because it continues to work on its debut title, so it sounds as if that recreation – no matter it could be – hasn’t been canceled, on the very least.

Sundberg says that his mission with Liquid Swords is to “construct a studio redefining recreation improvement with a small, expert-driven group and a sustainable enterprise mannequin”, and that “shifting market situations” pressured him to “half methods with gifted people”.

Regardless of this, Sundberg says he and Liquid Swords stay “dedicated to [their] imaginative and prescient” for the debut recreation and that work on the undertaking will proceed.

The sport has but to be introduced, however Liquid Swords says it is “assured that this extraordinarily unlucky setback won’t stop it from realizing its authentic ambition” for the title. This is hoping that we get an announcement for it sooner or later sooner or later.

Liquid Swords was initially based again in 2020. Helmed by Sundberg, the studio additionally consists of alumni from franchises like Battlefield, Grand Theft Auto, and Payday.

Sadly, Liquid Swords is not the one NetEase-funded studio to endure downsizing or funding discount in current months.

Others embrace Worlds Untold, the studio based by BioWare veteran Mac Walters, in addition to Jar of Sparks, which is headed up by Halo veteran Jerry Hook.

It is not simply NetEase studios, both; different smaller indie outfits are closing their doorways or cancelling tasks too, together with the likes of Casey Hudson’s Humanoid Origin and Dr. Disrespect’s former studio Midnight Society, amongst many others.