Lords of the Fallen writer CI Video games has introduced one other spherical of layoffs, with 30 extra workers 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 “remaining, focused spherical of redundancies” and is especially focused at CI Video games’ manufacturing groups.
Because of this Hexworks, the inner CI Video games growth staff that made Lords of the Fallen, is being left intact, which is sensible provided 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 exhausting at work on what’s at the moment codenamed Challenge 3, a brand new motion RPG, though whether or not it is a sequel to Lords of the Fallen stays to be seen.
Challenge Survive, one other CI Video games title being labored on by Hexworks’ fellow inside studio Underdog, can also 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.
Right this moment’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 provided that CI Video games lately reported report income, with the corporate bringing in additional than $60 million in the course of the 2023 fiscal 12 months, largely owing to the aforementioned success of Lords of the Fallen.
We’ll have to attend and see what Hexworks and its father or mother firm provide you with subsequent. Presumably, given Lords of the Fallen‘s success, we can be seeing a sequel, however we might have to attend a while for it.
Within the meantime, you’ll be able to seize Lords of the Fallen on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Sequence X|S. You’ll be able to check out my evaluate right here to see the way it stacks up towards the mountains of different Soulslikes vying to your time.