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\nMortal Kombat developer NetherRealm Studios has been hit by layoffs according to affected members of staff, with the majority of job losses said to be from its mobile team.\n<\/p>\n

\nNews of the layoffs first surfaced after NetherRealm quality assurance analyst Tony Lazzara posted to LinkedIn<\/a>, writing, “Unfortunately, yesterday NetherRealm’s mobile team was shut down. A ton of very talented people were put out of work.”\n<\/p>\n

“We had live services on multiple titles such as Mortal Kombat Mobile, Injustice 2, and Mortal Kombat Onslaught,” Lazzara continued. “I was also affected.”\n<\/p>\n

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Mortal Kombat developer NetherRealm Studios has been hit by layoffs according to affected members of staff, with the majority of job losses said to be from its mobile team. News of the layoffs first surfaced after NetherRealm quality assurance analyst Tony Lazzara posted to LinkedIn, writing, “Unfortunately, yesterday NetherRealm’s mobile team was shut down. A ton of very talented people were put out of work.” “We had live services on multiple titles such as Mortal Kombat Mobile, Injustice 2, and Mortal Kombat Onslaught,” Lazzara continued. “I was also affected.” Read more Source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":905183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[157,222,159,9675,13173,8711,510,21,59,45,8773,54,8851,4404,4616],"class_list":["post-905182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurogamer","tag-android","tag-fighting","tag-ios","tag-mortal-kombat-1","tag-mortal-kombat-x-mobile","tag-multiplayer-competitive","tag-netherrealm-studios","tag-nintendo-switch","tag-pc","tag-ps5","tag-side-view","tag-single-player","tag-strategy-turn-based-strategy","tag-warner-bros-games","tag-xbox-series-x-s"],"yoast_head":"\nMortal Kombat studio NetherRealm hit by 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