A third of staff are at risk of losing their jobs at Velan Studios, the company behind Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit and shutdown dodgeball game Knockout City.
Velan Studios announced the likelihood of layoffs in a statement from the company’s founders, Guha and Karthik Bala, who said that 46 people out of the team’s current total of 121 had been given notice their positions may be impacted.
In the statement, posted to social media platform X, the founders blamed a “major project” being “suddenly cancelled by an external partner, which means we may not be able to maintain our full studio size”.
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