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Helldivers 2 boss says industry doomed to "unnecessarily brutal" layoffs while "chasing after the battle royales"
The boss of Helldivers 2 has said that "brutal" layoffs will continue while the games industry continues to focus on safe bets, like more battle royales.
Helldivers 2 creative director Johan Pilestedt has slammed the current spate of video games industry layoffs as "unnecessarily brutal" and said that companies needed to learn lessons to avoid the same painful cycle of "death and rebirth" in future. Speaking today at GDC 2025, in a session attended by Eurogamer's Ed Nightingale, Pilestedt put the blame for layoffs on the decisions made by company bosses that they should chase industry trends such as yet more battle royales, just because a big few have become successful. While the majority of video game workers losing jobs were those on development teams, the people calling the shots on which projects were getting greenlit were the ones deciding to "play it safe" by following trends, Pilestedt continued.
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