Layoffs reported at Worms maker Team17

Company verifies “re-alignment”.

Team17 personnel have actually reported a round of layoffs, as the Worms designer and indie video game publisher looks for to reorganize its service.

Staff were informed of the modifications at 4pm this Friday afternoon in a compulsory all-hands conference, those who existed informed Eurogamer.

Impacted employee consist of those in the business’s art and style groups, Eurogamer comprehends, as the business moves its focus even more towards its publishing side, and external advancement of its own IP.

Staff who have actually been released state they have actually currently lost access to internal systems.

In a declaration provided to Eurogamer this night, a Team17 representative soft-pedaled the possibility of redundancies – stating those who have actually been laid off had the ability to request tasks in other positions.

” Team 17 Games Label has actually started a re-alignment of components within its studio running organization design in order to much better fulfill the requirements of our advancement partners and development of our owned IP.

” This might lead to a little number of redundancies; nevertheless, we have a variety of functions open throughout the Group and will be motivating and supporting any coworkers that want to use.”

Last year, Eurogamer released an in-depth report on Team17, as personnel spoke up on the business’s pay, working conditions and management failures. In the wake of the report’s publication, Team17 guaranteed a variety of favorable modifications, consisting of pay evaluations.

Upcoming Team17- released jobs consist of ominous fishing video game Dredge, plus follows up to The Game Kitchen’s Blasphemous and TSMG Studio’s Moving Out.

In regards to internally-developed jobs, Team17 had actually revealed black funny slasher-adventure Killer Frequency, for launch this summer season on PC and Meta Quest 2.