Announced a group of developers from the Visual Concepts team working on a game WWE 2K24 They announced their departure from the team after issuing a decision to dismiss them from the publisher 2K, making the aforementioned team the latest studio affected by the large wave of layoffs that hit the gaming industry.
This year began with the layoff of more than 5,000 developers from their work at the studio level, and this continues to this moment. location Game Developer Monitor developer page Brad Bowling Who revealed on his personal page on LinkedIn that he was laid off along with a number of other developers from the Visual Concepts team, developer of WWE 2K24, by decision of 2K.
books refrigerator He stated on his LinkedIn page that the wave of layoffs in the gaming industry is still continuing, as he was laid off with a group of distinguished developers by a recent decision from 2K and he continued:
“Over the past years, I have had a lot of fun working as talented developers, and during the 23 years I have been working in the field of game art design, I have encountered some obstacles, but I have never experienced an obstacle like this. I will miss everyone I worked with very much, even though it has only been a year and a half since the last time I lost my job, and since I did the impossible and found a job during that period, I hope I can do it again.”
Microsoft had also announced that it was abandoning 1,900 developers, in addition to the developer of The Last Ronin game, who announced the layoff of 50% of developers and many others. We hope that this wave will stop soon and that everyone who lost their job will find better work.