{"id":1390317,"date":"2025-11-13T00:02:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T00:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dHDkqYzbtJQmmFGy3VXohh"},"modified":"2025-11-13T00:02:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T00:02:36","slug":"looks-like-its-tencents-turn-to-start-turning-off-the-money-faucet-for-western-studios-as-bloodhunt-developer-sharkmob-says-layoffs-are-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/looks-like-its-tencents-turn-to-start-turning-off-the-money-faucet-for-western-studios-as-bloodhunt-developer-sharkmob-says-layoffs-are-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Looks like it&#8217;s Tencent&#8217;s turn to start turning off the money faucet for Western studios, as Bloodhunt developer Sharkmob says layoffs are coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>Tencent-owned Swedish developer Sharkmob, which announced in October that the supernatural battle royale Vampire: The Masquerade &#8211; Bloodhunt will be <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/battle-royale\/vampire-the-masquerade-bloodhunt-is-the-only-battle-royale-i-ever-loved-so-naturally-its-going-offline-for-good-in-april\/\">taken offline in April 2026<\/a>, says it will lay off an unspecified number of employees as part of &#8220;planned changes to its organizational structure.&#8221; The studio said <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/exoborne\/\">Exoborne<\/a>, the &#8220;tactical open world extraction shooter&#8221; announced during The Game Awards 2023, remains in development.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement to <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/sharkmob-confirms-difficult-but-necessary-restructuring-unknown-number-of-jobs-at-risk\" target=\"_blank\">GamesIndustry<\/a>, Sharkmob said the layoffs will allow it to &#8220;sharpen our focus and align our efforts on the continued development of Exoborne and position us for sustainable growth.&#8221; Exoborne held its first playtest in January and <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/third-person-shooter\/exoborne-is-a-new-extraction-shooter-that-asks-the-question-what-if-we-destroyed-our-world-with-weather\/\">showed some promise<\/a>, but a release date hasn&#8217;t yet been announced.<\/p>\n<p>The layoffs at Sharkmob come less than two months after <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/gaming-industry\/dune-awakening-was-the-biggest-release-in-funcoms-32-year-history-so-you-can-probably-guess-what-comes-next-in-this-rotten-world-layoffs\/\">deep cuts at Funcom<\/a>, also owned by Tencent, which included the <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/gaming-industry\/metal-hellsinger-studio-the-outsiders-is-closing-as-part-of-funcoms-post-dune-awakening-layoffs\/\">outright closure of Metal: Hellsinger developer The Outsiders<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Outsiders founder David Goldfarb reacted to the news in a wordless post on <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/locust9\/status\/1988631724897579122\" target=\"_blank\">X<\/a>:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:945px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:80.63%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"hndL66s9u8Vq9aLNuukerW\" name=\"dave\" alt=\"David Goldfarb expresses anger over Sharkmob layoffs\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/looks-like-its-tencents-turn-to-start-turning-off-the-money-faucet-for-western-studios-as-bloodhunt-developer-sharkmob-says-layoffs-are-coming.png\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"945\" height=\"762\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"expandable\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: David Goldfarb (Twitter))<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Tencent vice president Yong-yi Zhu told GamesIndustry <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/behind-the-scenes-at-tencent\" target=\"_blank\">in September<\/a> that the company has &#8220;no plans at the moment to pull out&#8221; of its <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/every-game-company-that-tencent-has-invested-in\/\">significant investment in Western studios<\/a>, which recently expanded to include a <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/gaming-industry\/ubisofts-new-tencent-backed-company-is-called-vantage-studios-a-creative-house-that-will-take-over-development-of-assassins-creed-far-cry-and-rainbow-six\/\">new joint venture with Ubisoft<\/a> called Vantage Studios. But he also warned that &#8220;you may see a reduction in investment in certain places,&#8221; which he said &#8220;is just the realities of the industry and the dynamics of the industry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tencent isn&#8217;t the only Chinese game company to take that view: NetEase has <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/mmo\/netease-racks-up-its-third-studio-casualty-in-one-week-kneecapping-dev-working-on-a-warhammer-mmo-devastated-doesnt-even-begin-to-cover-it\/\">ended funding for a half-dozen studios<\/a> based in the US and Canada over the past year, just a few years after making major investments to increase its footprint in the region. In a <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nikopartners.com\/chinese-video-game-companies-are-adapting-their-us-strategies\/\" target=\"_blank\">February report<\/a>, Niko Partners director of research and insights Daniel Ahmad attributed the NetEase cuts largely to the success of games like Black Myth: Wukong, Genshin Impact, Naraka: Bladepoint, and Wuthering Waves, which demonstrated that developers based in China could achieve results comparable to Western outfits at a fraction of the cost.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/gaming-industry\/looks-like-its-tencents-turn-to-start-turning-off-the-money-faucet-for-western-studios-as-bloodhunt-developer-sharkmob-says-layoffs-are-coming\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tencent-owned Swedish developer Sharkmob, which announced in October that the supernatural battle royale Vampire: The Masquerade &#8211; Bloodhunt will be taken offline in April 2026, says it will lay off an unspecified number of employees as part of &#8220;planned changes to its organizational structure.&#8221; The studio said Exoborne, the &#8220;tactical open world extraction shooter&#8221; announced during The Game Awards 2023, remains in development. In a statement to GamesIndustry, Sharkmob said the layoffs will allow it to &#8220;sharpen our focus and align our efforts on the continued development of Exoborne and position us for sustainable growth.&#8221; Exoborne held its first playtest in January and showed some promise, but a release date hasn&#8217;t yet been announced. 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