At Embracer, the red pencil seems to be circulating again. According to reports, Eidos Montreal puts a whopping 75 employees on the street, which further thinned out the studio.
Eidos Montreal has not released anything for a long time, most recently the studios had published the praised but Mau sold Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, at the time still for Square Enix. The studio has been part of the Embracer Group since 2022 and primarily draws attention to itself through layoffs.
97 employees had to take the towel last year, now it is being deleted. Like the companyannounced, another 75 employees are put on the street.
"Today we informed our studio employees that we will be released up to 75 valuable members," wrote the studio, "since one of our mandates expires. This is not a question of their commitment or their skills, but unfortunately we do not have the capacity to completely redistribute them to our other running projects and services. They are very talented, extremely experienced experts and we will work on this transition to do so. Support.
Apart from the fact that Eidos Montreal supports the Microsoft studio Playground Games in the fable reboot, it is unclear what is currently being worked on. Finally, it was said that Eidos is working on a new Deus Ex, but the project was discontinued.
Eidos Montreal used to develop titles such as Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Mankind Divided, but also the Thief Reboot and the flopped Marvel's Avengers. The commercial failures brought the studio in an imbalance until Square Enix had the developer in 2022 at the western studios of the western studios. The latter is notoriously known to dismiss personnel and close studios, most recently as part of an extensive restructuring.
