The layoffs will continue until video games improve
Don’t Nod, the studio behind the original Life is Strange, is collapsing.
The French developer is facing a near-total layoff, up to 85 jobs, which would leave its French teams with only a small number of employees.
The studio has struggled with a string of underperforming releases, the most recently the sci-fi adventure Aphelion.
Don’t Nod has warned that it may not have enough funding to continue operating beyond January 31, 2027, and has entered a French “safeguard” procedure to restructure its finances.
This is the main reason why so many AAA games suck these days. Not microtransactions or horse armor DLC, but cultural parasites being hired on the basis of political leaning instead of merit.
So many more studios need to fall before the industry recovers from this cancer.
