Despite Laying Off 270 Staff, Development Studio Virtuos Remains 'Fully Committed' to The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered, Cyberpunk 2077, and Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered improvement workplace Virtuos has said it remains "fully committed" to ongoing enactment connected the game, arsenic good arsenic its contributions to Cyberpunk 2077 and Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, contempt shedding up to 270 staff.

In a connection today, Virtuous said it was "evolving to conscionable the changing needs" of its partners and the wider video games manufacture by cutting respective 100 unit members, predominantly from its Asian workforce.

Describing the occupation losses arsenic a "rebalancing of roles crossed our studios and geographies," Virtuos said its changes would interaction 200 roles successful Asia and a further 70 roles successful Europe.

Still, the institution has made wide that its squad down the recent, well-received Oblivion Remastered is not among those hardest hit. "Fewer than 10" roles volition beryllium impacted successful France, Virtuos continued, "where the halfway squad moving connected Oblivion Remastered is located." Oblivion Remastered update 1.2 volition soon beryllium released widely.

Ongoing enactment connected Cyberpunk 2077 — which lone contiguous received its latest spot — volition continue, Virtuos assured. The aforesaid is besides existent of its squad moving connected Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, owed retired connected August 28.

Discussing its staffing changes successful much detail, Virtuos said the company's absorption had shifted implicit the past 12 months aft acquisitions of teams successful North America and Europe, and it was present "selectively exiting work segments wherever request is weakening."

"We are grateful for the contributions of those impacted," Virtuos concluded. "We are providing separation packages, vocation modulation assistance, and opportunities for redeployment crossed our planetary web wherever possible. The company's contiguous absorption is connected managing this modulation with care, transparency, and respect."

Headquarted successful Singapore but with studios crossed the world, Virtuos employed 4,200 unit earlier these latest layoffs. The institution is simply a renowned co-development spouse that has contributed to a laundry database of caller blockbuster games, from Hogwarts Legacy to Call of Duty, and Horizon Zero Dawn to Mortal Kombat 1.

Virtuos' Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.3 is disposable contiguous for each platforms and adds caller vehicles, jobs and a photograph mode to CD Projekt's futuristic open-world, portion CD Projekt itself is engaged gathering Cyberpunk 2.

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