Outriders Dev People Can Fly Cancels Multiple Projects, Laying Off 120 Staff | Push Square

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Polish development studio People Can Fly, best known for Outriders and Bulletstorm, is scaling back its ambitions in a major way, announcing the cancellation of multiple projects and the elimination of 120 staff positions. This follows the 30 made redundant in January, and the studio now shares the dubious honour of having gone through the wringer twice in a calendar year with Life Is Strange: Double Exposure dev, Deck Nine Games.

In a statement on X (thanks, IGN), CEO Sebastian Wojciechowski cited «external market pressures» as the primary factor and said it would suspend Project Victoria, scale down Project Bifrost, and reorganise its internal teams. In April, People Can Fly cancelled Project Dagger, which it was developing and publishing in partnership with Take-Two Interactive.

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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.

Just looking more and more like there’s a new crash incoming. There’s layoffs all throughout the industry, what, every week now? Things really aren’t looking good.

Bullet Storm was a real good time. This story is not. Merry Christmas, everyone.

Wonder if that Square Enix title they were working on got canceled or not

«Bookending the year.»

For all the companies laying off pre-Christmas, how many do you think are waiting until immediately after?

Actually enjoyed outriders, had some solid foundations that a sequel could build on. Shame we'll never see it.

@LavenderShroud

There's no impending