The President of Hello-Rez Studios, Stewart Chisam, revealed on Twitter right now that the corporate can be present process layoffs to “guarantee Hello-Rez’s long-term success”. Within the in depth submit, Chisam indicated that Hello-Rez can be shifting its focus towards positioning its upcoming Smite successor Smite 2 for a protracted and sustainable future.
In line with Chisam, the layoffs will affect these in advertising and marketing and publishing in addition to the Evil Mojo, G&A, and Titan Forge divisions at Hello-Rez. The sport division of Hello-Rez will focus efforts totally on Smite 2 shifting ahead aside from small groups that may help mild updates for each Paladins and the unique Smite. Within the close to time period, the main target will shift to gameplay improvement for Smite 2 together with new modes and gods forward of its free-to-play launch subsequent yr.
This information has an actual human affect at a tricky time for employees on this business. Every impacted particular person is a proficient and devoted skilled who has poured their coronary heart and soul into our video games. Letting them go is a heartbreaking resolution, displays a failure in my management, and one for which I take private accountability. These are all good individuals who contributed positively to the corporate; none ought to view this as a private failure. I lengthen my deepest due to them for his or her contributions to the corporate and their function in serving to entertain and produce pleasure to hundreds of thousands of gamers.
– Stewart Chisam, President of Hello-Rez Studios
Hello-Rez joins the many different corporations in the video games business that affected by layoffs this yr. With 1000’s of jobs misplaced within the area simply this yr alone with no signal of it ending, it’s arduous to image precisely what the video games business will seem like within the close to future.
