Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizens Totem Wolf and South China Daniel Wu for their clue delivery! CTOnews.com October 4 news, according to foreign media kotaku reported that two people familiar with the matter revealed to it, Sony SIE first-party developer naughty dog studio is also in the wave of layoffs, the studio has developed "mysterious sea", "the last survivor" and other well-known works, friends may have an impression.

According to Logo of ▲ naughty dog studio, at least 25 employees will be laid off during the storm, ranging from art to game development, but most of the layoffs at this stage are those working in the QA department, while full-time staff have not been laid off yet.

▲ source foreign media kotaku not only that, the source also said that the current laid-off employees did not receive any severance payment, which also put some pressure on the remaining employees, naughty dogs also asked these laid-off employees to keep it a secret, but the relevant employees' contracts will not be officially terminated until the end of October, so these employees will continue to work this month.

Foreign media Kotaku has sent an inquiry to Sony, which has not been officially responded to.

▲ source foreign media kotaku Europe and the United States game industry as a whole is facing the plight of layoffs this year, in addition to naughty dogs, CTOnews.com has previously reported, including Team17, Epic Games, CDPR, Unity, Blizzard, Bioware and other manufacturers have carried out official layoffs.

Despite the recent high ratings of the American TV series "Last Survivor" adapted by HBO, foreign media said that the development of the multiplayer model of "Last Survivor" has been difficult, and the life of naughty dogs is actually not easy.

▲ "Last Survivor" multiplayer model official poster related reading: "

Game publisher Team17 plans to "lay off a lot", and CEO will leave.

"Game developer Epic Games announced 830 layoffs, accounting for 16%."

"developers have laid off 30 people, all from recruitment departments."

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