People can fly hit with layoffs

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People Can Fly announced over 100 job cuts due to “external market pressure.”
Other projects, such as Project Bifrost and Project Victoria have been affected.
Gaming industry trends suggest more layoffs in 2025 amid various corporate downsizing.

People can fly announces that the game studio has cut over 100 jobs in recent layoffs. The surprise move from People Can Fly comes just before the end of 2024 and the winter holidays.

People Can Fly's latest most famous release is likely Outriderswhich received mixed reviews, but over three million players within a month of launch back in 2021. After acquiring Incuvo, People Can Fly and Incuvo launched Green Hell VR year 2022 and Bulletstorm VR was released earlier in 2024. The remaining projects the studio has been working on have seen some shakeups, with People Can Fly's Project Dagger being canceled outright earlier in the year.

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Now, People Can Fly CEO Sebastian Wojciechowski has issued a statement on the studio's official social media accounts, acknowledging that the company has chosen to cut more than 120 jobs from the company. It appears that a couple more projects have been scaled back, with Project Bifrost “scaling down” and Project Victoria shutting down entirely. Wojciechowski explains that due to “external market pressure” adjustments were necessary, resulting in these lost jobs. CEO Wojciechowski continued, explaining that the studio will provide “resources” to help those who have been laid off. He also reinforced that the company wants to make sure the remaining team members feel “supported.”

Game development continues to see major layoffs

Unfortunately, it may not be the easiest thing to feel supported, even for game developers who have managed to escape recent layoffs. The trend of gaming companies cutting jobs has continued throughout 2024, with People Can Fly starting 2024 by cutting over 30 positions. People Can Fly isn't an outlier, though, as everything from small studios to mega-corporations have seen layoffs this year. Microsoft cut over 600 jobs in its Xbox gaming division, Bungie cut over 200 jobs, component and peripheral companies such as AMD and Corsair shed positions, and Life Is Strange: Double Exposures developers announced their own job cuts just days before People Can Fly did.

Although the future is not certain, it seems likely that jobs will continue to be lost in the gaming industry in 2025 as well. Some are concerned that proposed tariffs could affect gaming, drive up prices and potentially hurt sales. But even if the tariffs don't affect games and consoles, the industry still faces problems, even with projected increases in video game revenue through 2028. Whether mismanagement, over-hiring, poor sales performance, shareholder demands or something else is to blame, these changes have led some game developers leave the industry altogether as they search for more stable work.

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