Lords of the Fallen Publisher CI Games Lays Off 10% of its Workforce 

CI Games, the publisher behind Lords of the Fallen and Sniper: Ghost Warrior, has laid off 10% of its employees across the entire company.

According to GamesIndustry.biz, which first reported the news, sources told them among those affected are Hexworks, the developers of 2023’s Lords of the Fallen and Sniper: Ghost Warrior studio Underdog.

Sources also claimed that the majority of the Polish company’s marketing department has been made redundant.

Marek Lech Tymiński, CEO of CI Games, subsequently confirmed the layoffs and said that the decision was made “to preserve business strength and stability.”

“CI Games has made the tough but necessary decision to implement a targeted round of redundancies, affecting approximately 10% of employees across the company,” said Tymiński.

“We would like to thank each of them for the part they’ve played during their time with us.”

“Further business optimizations are being made to the organization’s pipelines and processes.”

Last year, the company launched its latest release Lords of the Fallen, a new entry to a Soulslike franchise that started in 2024 and is the publisher’s most expensive project to date, with a total cost of $66.2 million

The game was a hit despite receiving mixed reception, with more than one million copies sold within 10 days.

By comparison, the original title that was released in 2014 took seven months to achieve 900,000 units sold.

Unfortunately, the layoff news continues the wave of widespread job losses in the industry, with studios of all sizes being affected, including Unity, Bioware, ByteDance, Microsoft, and even livestreaming platform Twitch, among many others.

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