Bungie is taking a “new path”, laying off about 17% of the studio’s workforce, a loss of 220 jobs. These new layoffs follow a previous round back in November that cut about 100 jobs. Bungie CEO Pete Parsons announced the layoffs as well as additional “substantial changes” to rein in costs and focus development on Destiny and Marathon.
In addition to the 220 people who are losing their jobs, another 155 workers will be moved to Sony Interactive Entertainment and about 75 employees will move to a new studio. Those employees will be part of an effort “to spin out one of our incubation projects – an action game set in a brand-new science-fantasy universe” within a new studio under PlayStation Studios. The employees headed to SIE will be moved over the next several quarters, and Parsons says this will save jobs that would have otherwise been included in the total layoffs.
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