Mortal Kombat developer NetherRealm Studios has shut down its cell group, shedding roughly 50 builders within the course of.
Reviews of the layoff first started showing on LinkedIn, as GI.Biz studies, as builders got here ahead with the information that they’d been let go and are on the lookout for work.
A few of these builders have been NetherRealm veterans who had been with the studio for years. Elizabeth Ramirez, an animator who was impacted within the layoff was with NetherRealm for a full decade.
“It hurts me to announce I’ve been laid off from NetherRealm Studios after about 10 years of working there,” Ramirez stated on LinkedIn. “Thanks for the group members that took the time to assist me develop as an animator over time…For now it is a lot to course of mentally and I would like a while to clear my head.”
Each Warner Bros. and NetherRealm have thus far kept away from commenting on the layoff, although this additionally comes on the again of studies that Warner Bros. is taking a look at splitting the corporate in two.
If that’s the case then this might simply be the primary of many extra layoffs to return, as executives shuffle issues round to what they understand to be their place, as they proceed to play with peoples lives and livelihoods with out ever dealing with the results of their actions.
Supply – [GamesIndustry.Biz]
