Skate Developer Full Circle Hit With Layoffs as EA Looks to 'Better Support' the 'Long-Term Future' of the Game

Skate developer Full Circle has announced layoffs affecting an undisclosed fig of unit arsenic it aims to “better support” the “long-term future” of its free-to-play title.

Publisher EA revealed its “reshaping” plans with a blog station connected the studio’s website. No elaborate accusation astir the fig of affected employees oregon their roles was given, with the connection lone stating that “making changes to our squad structure” means that “some roles volition beryllium impacted.”

“The teammates affected are talented colleagues and friends who helped physique the instauration of skate.,” Full Circle said. “Their creativity and dedication are profoundly ingrained successful what players acquisition today. This determination is not a reflection of their interaction and we’re committed to supporting them done this transition.”

The station mentions that tens of millions of players person played the free-to-play Skate reboot since it launched arsenic an Early Access rubric for PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X | S September 2025. Today’s restructuring is said “to amended enactment skate.’s semipermanent aboriginal and absorption the squad connected the things that substance astir to you.” EA and Full Circle motion disconnected by assuring fans they volition enactment with the assemblage arsenic they “move faster, perceive much closely, and present consistently” arsenic improvement connected Skate continues.

This determination is not a reflection of their interaction and we’re committed to supporting them done this transition.“

“To our departing teammates: convey you. skate. exists due to the fact that of your hard enactment and dedication to the craft.”

Full Circle’s restructuring is lone the latest successful a drawstring of layoffs and crippled cancellations astatine EA. Following layoffs impacting astir 670 workers successful aboriginal 2024, the Battlefield and Madden steadfast chopped 300 further jobs crossed the institution successful April 2025. That determination unsocial saw the cancellation of a caller task acceptable successful the Titanfall beingness astatine Respawn Entertainment, arsenic the workplace accounted for astir 100 of the affected roles astatine the time.

EA went connected to extremity distant hiring and propulsion employees to instrumentality to the bureau the pursuing month. The closure of Cliffhanger Games, the workplace down the now-cancelled Black Panther video game, past arrived conscionable weeks later. September 2025 past saw the institution denote it had accepted a $55 cardinal acquisition connection from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners, and Silver Lake.

Full Circle volition proceed improvement connected Skate arsenic it works to unafraid its semipermanent future. As elaborate successful a abstracted station past week, the free-to-play skating revival volition soon motorboat into Season 3. The remainder of its roadmap includes the committedness of further features, cosmetics, crippled modes, and more.

IGN reached retired to EA for remark regarding the restructuring astatine Full Circle, but was pointed backmost to the enactment shared by the workplace successful lieu of further comment.

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