Diamond Member Steam 0 Posted March 5, 2025 Diamond Member Share Posted March 5, 2025 This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up and testimonies from former employees on LinkedIn. Per Kotaku, staff were informed earlier this week that March 7 would be their last day, and included developers who had contributed to a number of different projects, such as a This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up . Visual Arts is an art and technical support studio that has worked over the years with PlayStation's other first-party studios, most notably the recent The Last of Us Part 1 and 2 remasters. IGN has identified a number of developers on LinkedIn saying they had been laid off from Visual Arts, as well as at least one from PS Studios Malaysia. One former Visual Arts employee noted that the layoffs were "due to multiple project cancellations." This is the second round of layoffs at Visual Arts in the last two years, This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up . It is unclear how many people remain at Visual Arts or what the studio is working on now. IGN has reached out to PlayStation for comment. The layoffs contribute to an ongoing trend of games industry layoffs and project cancellations that's been reported on since 2023, when it was This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up . That number rose to This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up , and in This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up , albeit with far hazier numbers due to more studios declining to report the exact number impacted. Rebekah Valentine is a senior reporter for IGN. You can find her posting on BlueSky @duckvalentine.bsky.social. Got a story tip? Send it to [email protected]. This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up 0 Quote Link to comment https://hopzone.eu/forums/topic/234870-steam-sony-lays-off-unknown-number-of-workers-at-playstation-visual-arts-studio/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
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