It seems that Romero Gamesthe study based in Ireland founded by John and Brenda Romerohave completely closed the doors Following the cuts made by Microsoft. On Wednesday, the cut of funding had been confirmed. The name of the publisher who had pulled back had not been made, but it was then clarified that it was Microsoft.
Subsequently, some updates to LinkedIn had made it clear that there were ongoing layoffs. Now, an employee said that The study was completely closed and that everyone The over 100 staff members have lost their place.
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Speaking with The Journal, an anonymous member of Romero Games staff described the situation as “a great shock”.
“Everyone is out of work,” he said. “We had had meetings With the publisher the day before it happened, he had not made any nod … for us it seemed a distant thing. At that moment, the title was already at an excellent point of development “.
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Romero Games was working on one first -person shooter made with the Unreal Engine 5. According to the anonymous employee, there is the possibility that another publisher can intervene to save the project, and Romero Games herself, but at the moment her activities have ceased. “We are trying to find other ways to finance the project,” said the employee. “But for now everything is stopped, and the study is closed.”
Romero Games is one of the third parties he has suffered greater damage From the enormous cuts made by Microsoft, it seems due to the greatest focus on the artificial generative intelligence of the company. There is talk of more than 9,000 employees who have lost their jobs, of various canceled projects, such as the Perfect Dark of The Initiative and Everwild of Rare, and other problems that are manifesting themselves now after now.
