{"id":14618,"date":"2025-04-02T17:05:49","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T17:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topat10.com\/?p=14618"},"modified":"2025-04-02T17:05:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T17:05:49","slug":"eidos-montreal-lays-off-75-developers-as-mandate-comes-to-an-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topat10.com\/?p=14618","title":{"rendered":"Eidos-Montr\u00e9al Lays Off 75 Developers As &quot;Mandate&quot; Comes To An End"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div property=\"schema:text\">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400; font-variant:normal; white-space:pre-wrap\"><span style=\"font-style:normal\">Eidos-Montr\u00e9al, known for its work developing games like Guardians of the Galaxy and Shadow of the Tomb Raider, <\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/eidosmontreal_nous-avons-inform%C3%A9-aujourdhui-les-membres-activity-7312494582850543616-TzUD\/\"><span style=\"font-weight:400; font-variant:normal; white-space:pre-wrap\"><span style=\"font-style:normal\"><span style=\"-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none\"><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none\">announced on social media<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight:400; font-variant:normal; white-space:pre-wrap\"><span style=\"font-style:normal\"> today that it was letting go &#8220;up to&#8221; 75 staff members. According to the post, the layoffs are due to the fact that the company has completed one of its &#8220;mandates,&#8221; and presumably has no other work to reassign the employees to.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:13px; margin-bottom:13px\"><span style=\"font-weight:400; font-variant:normal; white-space:pre-wrap\"><span style=\"font-style:normal\">&#8220;Today, we informed our studio staff that we are going to let go up to 75 valuable members, as one of our mandates is coming to an end,&#8221; the statement reads. &#8220;It is not a reflection of their dedication or skills, but unfortunately, we don\u2019t have the capacity to entirely reallocate them to our other ongoing projects and services.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:13px; margin-bottom:13px\"><span style=\"font-weight:400; font-variant:normal; white-space:pre-wrap\"><span style=\"font-style:normal\">&#8220;These very talented, highly experienced experts are going to enter the employment market, and we are working to support them through this transition.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<article data-embed-button=\"image_browser_uploader\" data-entity-embed-display=\"view_mode:file.body_default_rendered\" data-entity-embed-display-settings=\"{&quot;link_url&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;link_target&quot;:0,&quot;link_original&quot;:1,&quot;image_source&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;embed_source&quot;:0,&quot;image_caption&quot;:&quot;Fable, set for release in 2026.&quot;,&quot;embed_caption&quot;:0,&quot;content_warning&quot;:0}\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"bc345e79-6880-4bdd-bd8f-1acc362c109e\" data-langcode=\"en\" class=\"embedded-entity align-center\"><a class=\"linkoriginal\" data-featherlight=\"image\" href=\"\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"file file--type-image file--mimetype-image-jpeg file--view-mode-body-default-rendered\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<div class=\"field field--name-uri field--type-file-uri field--label-hidden gi5-uri gi5-file-uri field__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/body_default\/public\/2024\/06\/09\/2f6004eb\/fable4.jpg\" alt=\"Fable Gameplay Trailer Playground Games 2024 Xbox Showcase\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" class=\"image-style-body-default lazyload\"\/><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fable, set for release in 2026.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p style=\"margin-top:13px; margin-bottom:13px\"><span style=\"font-weight:400; font-variant:normal; white-space:pre-wrap\"><span style=\"font-style:normal\">The statement goes on to mention that, despite laying off people related to that former, unnamed mandate, &#8220;Eidos-Montr\u00e9al stays committed to deliver its other projects currently in development.&#8221; The only public project the developer is currently working on is Fable, which it&#8217;s assisting the main team at Playground on, but it&#8217;s unclear whether that&#8217;s a project Eidos-Montr\u00e9al will continue to work on or the mandate it recently completed.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:13px; margin-bottom:13px\"><span style=\"font-weight:400; font-variant:normal; white-space:pre-wrap\"><span style=\"font-style:normal\">Over the past few years, layoffs have decimated the gaming workforce, affecting tens of thousands of people. The last news story posted on <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400; font-variant:normal; white-space:pre-wrap\"><span style=\"font-style:italic\">Game Informer<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400; font-variant:normal; white-space:pre-wrap\"><span style=\"font-style:normal\"> before our closure last year was about <\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/2024\/07\/31\/bungie-lays-off-over-200-employees-announces-plans-for-deeper-integration-with-sony\"><span style=\"font-weight:400; font-variant:normal; white-space:pre-wrap\"><span style=\"font-style:normal\"><span style=\"-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none\"><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none\">200 people losing their jobs at Bungie<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight:400; font-variant:normal; white-space:pre-wrap\"><span style=\"font-style:normal\">. 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