Starship Troopers Continuum Developer XR Games Reportedly Hit By Major Layoffs

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XR Games, the studio behind Hitman 3 VR: Reloaded and the upcoming Starship Troopers Continuum, is reportedly set to lay off nearly all of its staff after the game’s poor reception.

According to the studio’s former head of production on LinkedIn, XR Games is letting go of 72 members of staff out of a total of 84, leaving behind a skeleton crew. A number of positions look set to be hit by redundancies, such as artists, programmers, project management, production, game design and IT.

One staff member wrote: “This goes beyond restructuring. I’ll keep my thoughts and observations to myself. Today, my focus is on helping those affected.”

At the time of writing XR Games has yet to make an official statement of the reported layoffs. Right now, the studio is working on a number of projects, including Zombie Army VR and the aforementioned Starship Troopers: Continuum, although with these reported redundancies it remains unknown what will become of them.

[Source – RoadToVR via Eurogamer]