Putting Distance Studios, the studio behind the 2022 survival horror and Lifeless Area non secular successor the Callisto Protocol, has laid off 32 workers in what it is calling a transfer to “realign the studio’s priorities to higher place its present and future tasks for achievement.”
Noticed first by X user @bogorad222 and independently confirmed by IGN, greater than 30 workers have been impacted by the latest layoffs.
In an announcement despatched to IGN, a spokesperson for Krafton confirmed the studio had layoffs and that 32 workers have been impacted.
Putting Distance Studios and KRAFTON have applied strategic modifications that realign the studio’s priorities to higher place its present and future tasks for achievement. Sadly, these modifications have impacted 32 workers. Honoring the invaluable contributions of every departing group member with materials help within the type of outplacement companies and significant severance packages is our high precedence throughout this tough second.
Putting Distance struggles ahead
Putting Distance was based over three years in the past and is led by Glen Schofield, the creator of Lifeless Area and co-founder of Sledgehammer Video games. The studio was initially fashioned to create a narrative-driven recreation set within the PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) universe, later revealed as The Callisto Protocol. Nevertheless, in Might 2022, Schofield revealed that The Callisto Protocol now not takes place within the PUBG universe, stating that it “grew into its personal world..”
Des licenciements chez Putting Distance Studios (@sd_studios ), 1 mois après la sortie du dernier DLC de The Callisto Protocol. pic.twitter.com/8sXaHnH7Hp
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Nevertheless, when The Callisto Protocol was launched, it was met with combined critiques and several other points, from efficiency points to studio crunch, and points with crediting folks who labored on the sport. Moreover, it was reported that The Callisto Protocol failed to fulfill the gross sales expectations set forth by Putting Distance Studios’ mother or father firm Krafton.
In our overview of The Callisto Protocol, which we awarded a 7 out of 10, my colleague Tristran Ogilvie mentioned “The Callisto Protocol is a satisfyingly gory non secular successor to the Lifeless Area sequence, however it’s in the end extra of a placing fashionable mimic than a scary new mutation.”
Taylor is a Reporter at IGN. You’ll be able to comply with her on Twitter @TayNixster.
