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More than 300 game developers lost their jobs in one day, weeks before Christmas

2023 was bad, but 2024 looks even worse.

Torn Banner Studios, best known as the developer of the Chivalry games, also made "the very difficult decision to undergo a restructure and reduce some of our talented workforce," CEO Steve Piggot said in a message posted to LinkedIn. No More Room in Hell 2, Torn Banner's current project, has struggled: Its early access launch in October was plagued with bugs and server problems, and the average concurrent player count sagged to just a few hundred almost immediately. The timing of these latest cuts is especially ugly, coming just weeks before the holiday season, but it's far from a sudden uptick: November saw layoffs at studios including Thunderful, Humanoid Origin, Reflector Entertainment, and Worlds Untold.

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