Crystal Dynamics Lays Off 30 More Workers in Third Wave of Cuts This Year

Crystal Dynamics has laid disconnected different 30 workers successful a restructuring today, making this the 3rd question of layoffs this year.

This quality was announced by Crystal Dynamics successful a station connected LinkedIn, successful which the institution stated it would "restructure the institution and concern for our adjacent generation."

To our players - arsenic the realities of the manufacture proceed to evolve, we've made these achy choices arsenic a mode to optimize the continued improvement of our flagship Tomb Raider game, arsenic good arsenic shaping the remainder of the workplace to marque caller games for the future.

Crystal Dynamics antecedently laid disconnected an chartless fig of workers successful August of this twelvemonth pursuing the cancellation of Perfect Dark by Xbox, which Crystal Dynamics had been supporting. It besides laid disconnected 17 radical earlier successful the year, and 10 others backmost successful 2023 arsenic a portion of a monolithic restrcturing astatine genitor institution Embracer Group, which acquired Crystal successful 2022. At the clip of the acquisition, Crystal Dynamics had 273 employees crossed its Austin, Bellevue, and San Mateo offices. It's unclear however galore employees it present has.

At the moment, Tomb Raider is the lone known task successful the works astatine Crystal Dynamics, with Amazon Games expected to publish. Earlier this year, it released Tomb Raider IV-VI Remastered, and past twelvemonth remasters of the archetypal 3 Tomb Raiders and Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 1 and 2. Its past wholly archetypal task was Marvel's Avengers successful 2020, which received lukewarm reviews.

IGN reached retired to Crystal Dynamics for remark and much details connected the cuts, but the institution pointed america backmost to its LinkedIn connection with nary further comment.

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