{"id":724904,"date":"2025-11-20T08:41:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T08:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/destroy-all-humans-remake-developer-black-forest-games-reportedly-lays-off-50-employees\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T08:41:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T08:41:20","slug":"destroy-all-humans-remake-developer-black-forest-games-reportedly-lays-off-50-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/destroy-all-humans-remake-developer-black-forest-games-reportedly-lays-off-50-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Destroy All Humans Remake Developer Black Forest Games Reportedly Lays Off 50 Employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/destroy-all-humans-remake-developer-black-forest-games-reportedly-lays-off-50-employees.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" alt=\"destroy all humans black forest games layoffs job cuts employees\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" class=\"image-style-body-default\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Black Forest Games, the studio behind the recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/review\/destroy-all-humans\/destroy-all-humans-review-an-obsolete-invasion\">Destroy All Humans!<\/a> 1 and 2 remakes, has reportedly laid off about 50 people. This news comes from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/game-industry-layoffs-how-many-2024-unity-twitch-1851155818\"><em>Kotaku<\/em><\/a>, which learned from a source with knowledge of the situation that these layoffs were announced yesterday, January 24, and that more information about them would be provided next week.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Game Informer&nbsp;<\/em>has reached out to Black Forest Games and will update this story if it learns more.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameBorder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0blRcUrAXZo\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><em>Kotaku&nbsp;<\/em>writes that its source says creative directors and most, &#8220;if not all,&#8221; of the managers at Black Forest Games will keep their jobs following the layoffs. At approximately 110 employees as of last year, 50 job cuts would equate to a roughly 50 percent reduction in staff at the studio.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Last August, publisher THQ Nordic, which is owned by Embracer Group, revealed that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/2023\/08\/11\/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-the-last-ronin-officially-revealed-through-teaser-trailer\">Black Forest Games was developing a game based on the popular Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles graphic novel,&nbsp;<em>The Last Ronin<\/em><\/a>. It&#8217;s unclear if these layoffs will affect its development.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>These job cuts join a string of other disheartening 2024 layoffs, which total more than 5,500 in just the first 25 days of the year. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/news\/2024\/01\/25\/microsoft-is-laying-off-1900-employees-across-xbox-activision-blizzard-and-zenimax\">Microsoft is laying off 1,900 employees across its Xbox, Activision Blizzard, and ZeniMax teams<\/a>, Outriders studio <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/news\/2024\/01\/25\/outriders-studio-people-can-fly-lays-off-more-than-30-employees\">People Can Fly laid off more than 30 employees<\/a> this week, and League of Legends company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/news\/2024\/01\/23\/league-of-legends-company-riot-games-lays-off-530-employees\">Riot Games laid off 530 employees<\/a> this week, too.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We recently learned&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/news\/2024\/01\/18\/lords-of-the-fallen-publisher-ci-games-lays-off-10-of-its-staff\">Lords of the Fallen Publisher CI Games was laying off 10 percent of its staff<\/a>, that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/news\/2024\/01\/10\/unity-to-lay-off-1800-employees\">Unity would be laying off 1,800 people by the end of March<\/a>, and that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/news\/2024\/01\/10\/twitch-to-lay-off-500-employees\">Twitch had laid off 500 employees<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We also learned that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/gamer-culture\/2024\/01\/12\/discord-lays-off-170-employees-due-to-overhiring#:~:text=Discord%20Lays%20Off%20170%20Employees%20Due%20To%20Overhiring%20%2D%20Game%20Informer\">Discord had laid off 170 employees<\/a>, that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/news\/2024\/01\/17\/ptw-a-support-studio-thats-worked-with-capcom-and-blizzard-lays-off-45-people\">layoffs happened at PTW<\/a>, a support studio that&#8217;s worked with companies like Blizzard and Capcom, and that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/news\/2024\/01\/17\/thunderful-group-the-company-behind-2023s-steamworld-build-to-lay-off-roughly-100\">SteamWorld Build company, Thunderful Group, let go of roughly 100 people<\/a>. Dead by Daylight developer&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/news\/2024\/01\/18\/dead-by-daylight-studio-behaviour-interactive-has-reportedly-laid-off-45-people\">Behaviour Interactive also reportedly laid off 45 people, too<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Last year, more than 10,000 people in the games industry or game-adjacent industries were laid off.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In January of last year,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/2023\/01\/19\/microsoft-layoffs-10000-people-amid-ongoing-activision-blizzard-acquisition\">Microsoft laid off 10,000 employees<\/a>&nbsp;amidst its ongoing&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/2022\/01\/18\/microsoft-and-xbox-acquire-activision-blizzard\">$69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard<\/a>, which&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/news\/2023\/10\/13\/microsoft-has-officially-acquired-activision-blizzard-for-69-billion\">it completed in October<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Striking Distance Studios, the team behind 2022&#8217;s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/review\/the-callisto-protocol\/morsels-of-fun-in-a-far-too-familiar-space\">The Callisto Protocol<\/a>, laid off&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/2023\/08\/03\/the-callisto-protocol-developer-striking-distance-suffers-over-30-layoffs\">more than 30 employees<\/a>&nbsp;in August of 2023. That same month, Mass Effect and Dragon Age developer&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/news\/2023\/08\/23\/bioware-lays-off-50-employees-in-studio-restructuring\">BioWare laid off 50 employees<\/a>, including long-time studio veterans. The following month, in September,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/review\/immortals-of-aveum\/modern-fantasy-warfare\">Immortals of Aveum<\/a>&nbsp;developer&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/news\/2023\/09\/14\/immortals-of-aveum-dev-ascendant-studios-lays-off-45-of-staff\">Ascendant Studios laid off roughly 45% of its staff<\/a>, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.epicgames.com\/site\/en-US\/news\/layoffs-at-epic\">Fortnite developer Epic Games laid off 830 employees<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In October of last year, The Last of Us developer&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/news\/2023\/10\/03\/naughty-dog-reportedly-lays-off-at-least-25-with-last-of-us-multiplayer-game-on-ice\">Naughty Dog laid off at least 25 employees<\/a>, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/news\/2023\/10\/05\/telltale-games-confirms-layoffs-in-development-games-remain-in-production\">Telltale Games&nbsp;<\/a>also underwent layoffs, although an actual number of affected employees has not yet been revealed. Dreams developer&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/news\/2023\/10\/24\/littlebigplanet-dreams-developer-media-molecule-reportedly-planning-to-lay-off-20\">Media Molecule laid off 20 employees<\/a>&nbsp;in late October.<\/p>\n<p>In November,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/2023\/11\/13\/amazon-games-lays-off-180-employees\">Amazon Games laid off 180 staff members<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/2023\/11\/07\/ubisoft-lays-off-over-a-hundred-employees\">Ubisoft laid off more than 100 employees<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/news\/2023\/10\/30\/destiny-2-dev-bungie-hit-with-layoffs-just-15-months-after-playstation-acquisition\">Bungie laid off roughly 100 developers<\/a>, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/news\/2023\/11\/15\/505-games-parent-company-digital-bros-laying-off-30-percent-of-staff\">505 Games&#8217; parent company, Digital Bros, laid off 30% of its staff<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In December,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/news\/2023\/12\/12\/embracer-reportedly-might-close-free-radical-design-its-reformed-timesplitters-team\">Embracer Group closed its reformed TimeSplitters studio, Free Radical Design<\/a>, and earlier in the year,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/2023\/08\/31\/saints-row-developer-volition-games-has-been-shut-down#:~:text=Yesterday%2C%20Volition%20Games%2C%20the%20studio,and%20its%20community%20of%20fans.\">Embracer closed Saints Row developer Volition Games<\/a>, a studio with more than 30 years of development history. A few weeks before the winter holidays, Dungeons &amp; Dragons and Magic: The Gathering owner&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/gamer-culture\/2023\/12\/12\/dungeons-dragons-magic-the-gathering-owner-hasbro-is-laying-off-1100\">Hasbro laid off 1,100 employees<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The games industry will surely feel the effects of such horrific layoffs for years to come. The hearts of the&nbsp;Game Informer&nbsp;staff are with everyone who&#8217;s been affected by layoffs or closures.<\/p>\n<p><em>[Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/game-industry-layoffs-how-many-2024-unity-twitch-1851155818\">Kotaku<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/news\/2024\/01\/25\/destroy-all-humans-remake-developer-black-forest-games-reportedly-lays-off-50\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Forest Games, the studio behind the recent Destroy All Humans! 1 and 2 remakes, has reportedly laid off about 50 people. This news comes from&nbsp;Kotaku, which learned from a source with knowledge of the situation that these layoffs were announced yesterday, January 24, and that more information about them would be provided next week.&nbsp; Game Informer&nbsp;has reached out to Black Forest Games and will update this story if it learns more.&nbsp; Kotaku&nbsp;writes that its source says creative directors and most, &#8220;if not all,&#8221; of the managers at Black Forest Games will keep their jobs following the layoffs. At approximately 110 employees as of last year, 50 job cuts would equate to a roughly 50 percent reduction in staff at the studio.&nbsp; Last August, publisher&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/destroy-all-humans-remake-developer-black-forest-games-reportedly-lays-off-50-employees\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":724905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-724904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-informer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Destroy All Humans Remake Developer Black Forest Games Reportedly Lays Off 50 Employees | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Black Forest Games, the studio behind the recent Destroy All Humans! 1 and 2 remakes, has reportedly laid off about 50 people. 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