Lords of the Fallen writer CI Video games has introduced one other spherical of layoffs, with 30 extra staff being let go from the corporate as a part of a restructuring effort that began in January.
In accordance a CI Video games report (which was shared with GamesIndustry.biz), this newest layoff spherical represents a “last, focused spherical of redundancies” and is especially focused at CI Video games’ manufacturing groups.
Because of this Hexworks, the interior CI Video games improvement workforce that made Lords of the Fallen, is being left intact, which is smart on condition that it racked up over 1,000,000 gross sales inside simply ten days.
Actually, CI Video games’ report says that Hexworks is at the moment arduous at work on what’s at the moment codenamed Undertaking 3, a brand new motion RPG, though whether or not it is a sequel to Lords of the Fallen stays to be seen.
Undertaking Survive, one other CI Video games title being labored on by Hexworks’ fellow inside studio Underdog, can be nonetheless trundling alongside properly; GI.biz says that the studio has been “given an prolonged interval” to complete a vertical slice earlier than full manufacturing begins.
As we speak’s spherical of layoffs represents what CI Video games’ report suggests would be the final redundancies to be applied as a part of the writer’s latest restructuring effort, which it launched into in earnest in January.
That restructuring effort might come as a shock to some on condition that CI Video games not too long ago reported document income, with the corporate bringing in additional than $60 million in the course of the 2023 fiscal yr, largely owing to the aforementioned success of Lords of the Fallen.
We’ll have to attend and see what Hexworks and its mother or father firm provide you with subsequent. Presumably, given Lords of the Fallen‘s success, we might be seeing a sequel, however we might have to attend a while for it.
Within the meantime, you possibly can seize Lords of the Fallen on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Sequence X|S. You’ll be able to check out my assessment right here to see the way it stacks up towards the mountains of different Soulslikes vying in your time.