Digital actuality agency nDreams is making layoffs.
GamesIndustry.biz stories that the corporate is planning to let go 17.5 per cent of its workers. LinkedIn has 253 profiles which can be listed as at the moment working at nDreams, that means that round 45 staff are set to lose their jobs if that is an correct determine.
“Immediately, all of our nDreams colleagues had been knowledgeable of a renewed strategic focus that might end in redundancies affecting as much as 17.5% of the corporate,” CEO Patrick O’Luanaigh mentioned
“Having explored a number of alternate options to keep away from such motion over many months in a difficult VR video games market, located inside a tricky gaming panorama extra broadly, it’s with deep remorse that we’re dropping valued and gifted members of our groups. This might influence all ranges, together with senior management.
“We’re working tirelessly to assist our group with the respect and care they deserve all through this difficult course of, together with all our efforts to comprehensively help these whose positions could also be impacted to maneuver into new roles inside nDreams or elsewhere.
“Having been fully-focused on VR improvement since 2013, we have now inevitably confronted many challenges in constructing a modest impartial studio right into a world-leading VR sport developer working to push each the expertise and the market ahead. These vital issues of dropping valued group members are essentially the most troublesome but, however our perception in XR gaming is undimmed. We firmly imagine that our proposed new construction will allow us to higher serve present and future audiences in creating medium-defining titles for years to come back.
“For now, our precedence is to assist our folks on this course of as we work by way of reshaping for the longer term.”
This comes ten months after nDreams was acquired by Aonic for $100m.
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