Eidos Montreal lay off 75 workers in further cuts to the Deus Ex studio

"One of our mandates is coming to an end"

75 radical person been fto spell by Eidos-Montreal, the workplace announced yesterday. The Deus Ex and Tomb Raider developers laid disconnected the workers due to the fact that they didn't person the "capacity to wholly reallocate them", according to a statement. It's a further stroke to the workforce astatine the Embracer-owned company, pursuing hefty cuts past year.

"Today, we informed our workplace unit that we are going to fto spell up to 75 invaluable members, arsenic 1 of our mandates is coming to an end," said absorption successful the station connected LinkedIn. "It is not a reflection of their dedication oregon skills, but unfortunately, we don’t person the capableness to wholly reallocate them to our different ongoing projects and services.

"These precise talented, highly experienced experts are going to participate the employment market, and we are moving to enactment them done this transition."

The institution doesn't specify what that "mandate" is. But it astir apt means that enactment connected a existent task is finishing, for immoderate reason. Note the classical usage of not-our-fault spinlingo. The connection says the axed workers are "going to participate the employment market" alternatively than, say, being frogmarched there.

"Eidos-Montréal stays committed to present its different projects presently successful development," they added.

The lone task that the workplace has publically acknowledged they've been moving connected lately is the delayed Fable, connected which they're helping retired alongside halfway developer Playground Games. The institution cancelled a Deus Ex crippled past year, and laid disconnected 100 workers successful the aftermath of that cancellation. We don't cognize what other they're doing close now.

Eidos-Montreal was bought by Embracer Group successful 2022, pursuing the merchandise of Guardians of the Galaxy the twelvemonth before. Soon afterwards Embracer began a ruthless cost-cutting purge of workers crossed each its studios. In March past year, Embracer's CEO claimed this process of "restructuring" was over. But since past the multinational conglomerate has overseen the closure of the Gothic developers, the axing of 139 radical from a Diablo IV enactment studio, and conscionable past week different layoffs astatine Crystal Dynamics.