Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
NEW YORK , 21sth Jan. CI Games and Behaviour Interactive video game companies on Saturday announced that they have laid off several employees due to the tough market conditions, the news media reported.
GamesIndustry.biz reported that Poland-based CI Games has laid off 10 per cent of its workforce across the entire company, and Canada-based Behaviour Interactive reduced about three per cent of its workforce.
CI Games, best known for the Sniper: Ghost Warrior and Lords of the Fallen series, has reduced the majority of the staff from the marketing team.
Lords of the Fallen developer Hexworks and Sniper Ghost Warrior studio Underdog had also been affected, the report said, cited sources.
CI Games spokesperson was quoted in media saying “To preserve business strength and stability, CI Games has made the tough but necessary decision to implement a targeted round of redundancies, affecting approximately 10 per cent of employees across the company”.
Behaviour Interactive confirmed that the layoffs only affected its Montreal staff, the report said.
“Recently, changing market conditions necessitated adjusting the scope of several Behaviour projects,” a Behaviour Interactive spokesperson said
“In these situations, our preference is always to reassign talent to other projects. Unfortunately, this option is not always available to us. These departures represented less than 3 per cent of our total workforce,” it added.
Behaviour Interactive is best known for the multiplayer horror game Dead by Daylight.
Gearbox-owned game development studio Lost Boys Interactive laid off a number of employees that employed over 400 people.
It is unclear how many employees were laid off, former employees have indicated that a “sizable” section of the company was let go, reports Aftermath.
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