According to Kotaku, Black Forest Games, the studio behind the recent Destroy All Humans remakes, has cut about 50% or around 50 people earlier today
Kotaku has learned that Black Forest Games, the developer behind the Destroy All Humans! 1 and 2 remakes, has cut roughly 50% of its total workforce. The studio reportedly had 110 employees in 2023. The layoffs were announced on January 24 and management told staff that more information would be provided next week.
One person with knowledge of the situation told Kotaku that the creative directors and most “if not all” of the managers will keep their jobs. At least one employee has posted publicly about the layoffs on social media, Kotaku can confirm.
Kotaku has contacted Black Forest Games about the layoffs. In August 2023, THQ Nordic (owned by Embracer) announced that BFG was working on a TMNT game based on the popular, darker spin-off comic series The Last Ronin. According to Paramount, that game is still a few years away. …
Hi Reddit! I’m Tom Marks, Executive Reviews Editor in charge of game reviews at IGN. Joining me is Dan Stapleton (u/danstapleton), who held this seat previously before becoming our overall Director of Reviews last year.
Many moons ago, Dan would host a reviews AMA here on /r/games annually to shed some light on our process, our reviews philosophy, his perfect sunday, and anything else y’all wanted to know about. I’m hoping to pick that torch back up, so we’ll be here today starting around 10am PT to answer whatever questions you have – ask us anything!
For some quick background on us: I studied game design at UCLA, after which I got a job at PC Gamer in 2014 – I became IGN’s PC Editor in 2017, swapped to a more general editor role the year after, formally joined the reviews team as Dan’s right-hand man in 2019, and finally took the reins as Executive Editor officially this year. Meanwhile, Dan has been around since time itself, starting at PC Gamer in 2003 (a coincidence, I swear) …