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Layoffs look likely at Sumo Digital, as company ditches plans to work on its own IP
UK game maker Sumo Digital has told staff it will refocus exclusively on "development services for partners", rather th…
Watch on YouTube Headquarted in Sheffield, Sumo Digital has grown considerably since its founding in 2003, with development offices in Nottingham, Newcastle, Leamington Spa and Warrington, and also abroad in India. Today's news seems set to mark the second round of layoffs at the company in under a year, after 15 percent of its staff were let go in June 2024, and Canadian indie studio Timbre Games was divested. Sumo Digital has long been a work-for-hire studio that has quietly helped develop some of video gaming's biggest blockbusters, with contributions to IO Interactive's recent Hitman trilogy, Xbox's Forza Horizon 4 and 5, Activison's Call of Duty: Vanguard and Warner Bros' Hogwarts Legacy.
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