Oblivion Remastered developers Virtuos are reportedly planning layoffs, with 300 workers at risk

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Virtuos, the institution champion known for moving with different studios to present the likes of Dark Souls Remastered, Oblivion Remastered and the upcoming Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, are reportedly preparing to laic disconnected staff. 300 radical are cited arsenic being astatine risk.

That's according to reporting posted to Bluesky by Gauthier Andres of French outlet Origami. Andres' station dropped aforesaid time Virtuos pb crippled decorator Adrien Jouannet appeared connected a Cyberpunk 2077 livestream to speech astir the studio's enactment with CD Projekt connected the futuristic RPG's latest update.

Andres reports that 300 Virtuos unit are astatine hazard of redundancy, oregon astir 7% of the company's full staff. Virtuos' website cites them arsenic employing implicit 4200 radical successful total.

The study suggests these layoffs volition chiefly impact Virtuos' workers successful China, but that unit successful different regions of the satellite volition besides beryllium hit, including astatine the French studios that worked with Bethesda connected Oblivion Remastered. As of writing, Virtuos person studios based successful 25 locations crossed the world, with five, including UK-based Third Kind Games and a caller workplace successful South Korea, having been acquired by the institution since the commencement of August 2024.

"Virtuos is said to person made important efforts connected Oblivion, with a argumentation of over-delivering connected prime comparative to the budget, and a declaration without royalties (no bonuses tied to the game's success)," reads a translation of Andres' station connected ResetEra which intimately matches a instrumentality translation we've done, "The result: teams were pushed to their limits for a axenic showcase project, with its profitability apt to beryllium questioned."

It besides asserts that moving connected the likes of Oblivion Remastered and Snake Eater were portion of an effort by Virtuos to displacement their strategy towards moving connected bigger projects oregon series, alternatively than lighter remakes. We've reached retired to Virtuos for comment.

If these layoffs bash travel to pass, they'd travel wide occupation cuts connected the different broadside of the Oblivion Remastered equation. Bethesda owners Microsoft fto astir 9,000 unit spell earlier period and cancelled 3 games, with immoderate devs who were moving connected a now-canned MMO astatine ZeniMax presently near successful limbo according to their union.