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Layoffs in the video game industry\u00a0just keep coming. In a post on social media, ZA\/UM Studio,\u00a0the developer and publisher of Disco Elysium<\/em> and more recently, Zero Parades: For Dead Spies<\/em>, announced that it “served redundancy or at-risk notices impacting up to 32 of our colleagues across all departments at ZA\/UM Studio.”<\/p>\n The news of the layoffs comes only a few months after the studio’s latest game was released in May. ZA\/UM Studio attributed the layoffs to the weak “commercial performance” of Zero\u00a0Parades: For Dead Spies,<\/em> which “has not enabled us to sustain a studio of our current size.” According to SteamDB, the espionage RPG\u00a0hit an all-time peak of 3,177 players around the time of its release, but has steadily declined since.<\/p>\n For diehard\u00a0Disco Elysium<\/em> fans, the news of layoffs may not come as a total surprise. After the success of the narrative-heavy RPG in 2019, ZA\/UM Studio went through a series of conflicts including the\u00a0firing of the game’s core team, a lawsuit involving intellectual property theft and accusations of a hostile work environment for women. Former devs with ZA\/UM Studio subsequently made their own studio called Longdue, which is also working on a “narrative-first” game. As for the latest layoffs, ZA\/UM Studio said it’s still “continued to consult and work with representatives of the ZA\/UM Workers’ Alliance.”<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n Up to 32 employees were affected by the studio\u2019s recent decision. Layoffs in the video game industry\u00a0just keep coming. In a post on social media,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[4456,713,897,1960,17770,26771],"class_list":["post-69838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-announces","tag-launch","tag-layoffs","tag-months","tag-parades","tag-zaum","wpcat-32-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/69839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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