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Bungie is laying off 220 employees and moving others to PlayStation

The studio will also integrate 155 employees into SIE.

Bungie CEO Pete Parsons made the announcement on the studio’s website, citing the increasing costs of development and economic conditions as the reason for the reduction of staff — a refrain that’s become common in the last two years of prolific video game industry layoffs. These numbers, combined with the 100 people laid off in October of last year, mean that Bungie has lost roughly 40 percent of its total workforce in the last 12 months. This had a knock-on effect on the studio’s known projects, resulting in what Parsons called a “quality miss” with Destiny 2 ’s Lightfall expansion and the delay of its next game, Marathon.

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