Until Dawn’s remake studio, Ballistic Moon, has “effectively closed”, in the midst of stating that only a handful of employees “at most” remain, none of them developers.
Ballistic Moon, based in the United Kingdom, confirmed a round of layoffs last year, saying that he had made the “difficult decision to significantly climb our team to ensure the future of our study.” However, a new Insider gaming report states that the study silently made a second round of redundancies towards the end of last year.
According to the publication sources, approximately 40 employees were fired in October, and the remaining personnel continued to provide subsequent support for Ballistic’s to Dawn Remake. However, it is stated that these developers, who equip around 20 employees, lost their work in December, leaving only the founders of the study and “possibly” a handful of employees “at most.” As reported, all public relations, marketing and development teams have gone.
“People share mistakes they have found in the game so that the conscious team,” a source told the publication, “but there is no one working on the patches support for the game.”
Insider gaming states that employment losses follow the failed attempts of Ballistic founders to present new projects, ensure funds and maintain things “moving forward.” It is also said that there were discussions with Sony to obtain additional funds to dawn updates, possibly even another game, but they never came to fruition. Eurogamer has communicated with Ballistic to comment.
The news of additional redundancies in Ballistic occurs as employment cuts and studies closures continue throughout the games industry. In February only saw characters like Monolith Productions, Player First Games and Warner Bros. San Diego’s games closed their doors, with dismissals also confirmed in the American Development Team of Marvel Rivals, Callisto developer of Callisto Protocol Striking Distence and the Simulator Studio Studio Bossa Games Surgeon. This week has also seen more job losses in PlayStation after the cancellation of multiple live service games, and still awakens the secret mode of the deep editor confirmed a “small number” of layoffs, after its sale to an investment company.
