Reikon reportedly cuts 80% of staff
Kotaku’s sources say that around four out of every five employees at Reikon have been laid off, making for a total of “60 to 70 people”.
This is awful. I loved Ruiner. I think it was my GOTY in 2017.
Between this news, Microsoft earlier this morning letting close to 2000 people from Xbox go, Riot cutting nearly 600 people on Monday, combined with the dozens of other studios that have made cuts, in 2024 alone, I’ve read that roughly 6–7 thousand people working in the industry have lost their jobs. We’re not even through January, how much worse will it get?
Letting that number sink it, it’s hard to want to pick up a controller and play anything right now to be honest.