2024 has been so dire for video game development that we are now in the business of reporting on repeat layoffs at the same studios. Case in point, Deck Nine, which endured a 20% reduction in headcount back in <a href=«https://x.com/DeckNineGames/status/1762600546878599430?ref_src=» https:>February
, has announced it will be doing it all over again, just in time for the holidays.
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, Deck Nine Games CEO Mark Lyons announced the unhappy news (thanks, IGN). While the exact numbers remain unknown, Lyons thanked «those of you leaving the studio» for «sharing your talents with us.» Deck Nine's most recent release is Life Is Strange: Double Exposure, which does not appear to have met internal expectations.
Unfortunately, the studio has been in the headlines a lot this year, but not for many positive reasons. In August, IGN ran an extensive report on the allegedly toxic culture that has been allowed to permeate the studio after a series of symbols related to Nazi ideology and white supremacy were discovered during the development of Life Is Strange: True Colors.
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But admits that he wouldn't have «written things the same way»
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Khayl Adam is Push Square's roving Australian correspondent, a reporter tasked with scouring the internet for the richest, most succulent PlayStation stories. With five years of experience as a freelance journalist and mercenary wordsmith, RPGs are his first great love, but strategy and tactics games are a close second, genres in which he is only too happy to specialize.
Somehow missed the whole Nazi imagery and white supremacy stuff during development, along with the blatant homophobia from Square Enix London. What an insane story.
@nessisonett yeah I had to go read all that after seeing this that's
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