According to the reports, Malaysia has been affected by the cuts of PlayStation Studio PlayStation of PlayStation and Malaysia of PS Malaysia.
As reported by Kotaku, an “unknown number of staff” was allegedly fired in visual arts and informed that “his last day in Sony would be March 7”.
These layoffs are supposedly “generalized” and are said to include developers who were working on the recently canceled live service game of Blessed Studios.
PS Studios Malaysia seems to have faced layoffs, according to a LinkedIn post by former Senior project manager, Johann Affondy Mahfoor.
“There was a wave of reduction of the workforce and unfortunately I am no longer part of the PS brand,” Mahfoor wrote. “[The] The saddest and most devastating part for me was to see high performance and key people who were actively working on projects that were fired. “
Gamesindustry.biz It has communicated with Sony for more comments and clarifications.
PS Studios Malaysia was founded in 2020 to work together with the visual arts, which in itself provides technical and technical art support to the PS studies first. More recently, it worked with Naughty Dog in the last remassers part 1 and 2.
Former employees Chris Clyde and Lewis Labram also shared that they were part of the layoffs on LinkedIn.
Riot Games R&D Senior Producer Abby Lemaster, who previously worked in Visual Arts as project manager, shared his thoughts on the situation on Monday (March 3).
“It was difficult to wake up with the messages that many friends and former co -workers of PSVA were fired this morning,” Lemaster wrote. “The layoffs today gave a lot of blow. Psva released developers with decades of experience in the subject; talent that will be extraordinarily difficult to recover.
“This industry can be unpredictable, but the ability, experience and passion of the people with whom I worked on PSVA are undeniable.”
