I’m sure you’ve heard the latest slew of reports and rumors about Microsoft. There were rumors leading up to today that layoffs would be happening within the video game division. It turns out that’s true, as we’re seeing more reports today surfacing on who might be affected. One of the latest reports to have emerged is from Undead Labs.
Thanks to Reddit, we’re learning that senior reporter Ethan Gach for Kotaku has messaged on Bluesky, alerting followers that Undead Labs is now dealing with layoffs. From what they heard, it’s uncertain at the moment just how many staff members are being let go from the studio. Of course, it might be a minimal hit at Undead Labs. We’ll have to wait and see the extent of the layoffs from the studio, if the report proves to be true.
Of course, this news comes not long after we learned that the studio has reached its largest size ever. We know that the developers have been working on State of Decay 3. That said, we haven’t seen that game in a while, so it’s still a mystery as to what that installment would offer players. Furthermore, this will be the first game the studio releases since it was acquired by Microsoft in 2018.
Undead Labs won’t be the only studio to face layoffs. We had reports suggesting that Rare was dealing with layoffs, as well as the cancellation of their upcoming Everwild game. Likewise, earlier today, reports surfaced that King and ZeniMax Media were also expected to deal with layoffs. There have even been reports that things might be even more dreadful behind the scenes at Xbox.
At any rate, we’ll have to wait for some of the dust to settle before we begin to see confirmation of which studios had layoffs. The same can be said about the state of the various game projects they were working on.
