IO Interactive confirms some employees were let go

[Furyo]

Sorry to anyone affected by this, I hope you're fine Mazy

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/j ... cales-down

[Mazy]

I'm alright, really sucks though

[Warby]

i heard some top people where randomly chosen to get the boot really confuses me ..

[PhilipK]

Heard some rumors about this yesterday. Glad you weren't affected by this Mazy.

But really sad news

[Minos]

That sucks IO seemed to be doing pretty well lately. Mini Ninjas had its flaws but was a pretty charming and fun game. Are you the only mapcorian working at IO atm Mazy?

[Pericolos0]

this really sucks , 38 people were let go I heard. Glad you're okay Mazy.

[Zacker]

Sad news indeed, both for the involved people and for the danish game industry in general. Except for IO (and Unity) pretty much all other game studios in DK have either fired massive amounts of people or crashed in the past few years. So now with IO letting people go also, then it's definitely looking dark.

It should be said that the exact number of people is closer to 25 and that most of the affected were QA personnel.

Mini Ninjas was decently received, but sales were just around break even and not near the target estimate. Core reasoning behind these layoffs however is that all production teams are either mostly fully staffed or scaling down.