| konnichiwa said: Supermassive is laying off 90 workers.. |
That's odd, they're currently working on more games at once than they ever have in their history as a studio. They currently have in development:
- Little Nightmares 3
- The Casting of Frank Stone (Dead by Daylight singleplayer horror story)
- The Dark Pictures Anthology: Directive 8020
- Until Dawn PS5/PC remake
In addition, they copyrighted 4 other Dark Pictures Anthology games other than Directive 8020, those being The Craven Man, Intercession, Winterfold, and O Death. They said in interviews that it's a whole 2nd season of Dark Pictures games, with potential for a 3rd season happening after that.
Only thing I can think of is that Namco Bandai has now cancelled Dark Pictures Anthology season 2 in the wake of their own poor financials and the news story about them cancelling multiple in-development but unannounced games and being more selective about what games they greenlight in the future. If Namco Bandai cancelled Dark Pictures season 2, it definitely would have prompted layoffs at Supermassive.
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Edit: Apparently Sony has a different studio doing the Until Dawn remaster/remake, they shut out Supermassive.
Also I just saw that Nordisk Film, the Danish film studio that owns Avalanche Studios (Just Cause, theHunter, Contraband), bought Supermassive in 2022, and that Supermassive's founders left last month. So it's possible that Nordisk is seeing losses and mandated these layoffs, and the founders saw it coming and weren't happy about it and left the studio themselves in protest.
Last edited by shikamaru317 - on 26 February 2024
