Sackboy: A Big Adventure and Team Sonic Racing studio Sumo Group has announced that it will be laying off an unspecified number of employees as it refocuses on third-party work for hire and support studio contracts.
In a notice on its website, Sumo Group, which counts developer Sumo Digital as one of its subsidiaries (as well as publisher Secret Mode and British studio Auroch Digital), says the layoffs are part of an effort to balance "creative ambitions" and "commercial realities".
As such, Sumo Digital, the main development wing of Sumo Group (which also counts Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 developer The Chinese Room as one of its subsidiaries), will refocus "exclusively on development services for partners".
The move will, Sumo Group admits, "have an impact on our studios and people", which likely means that some staff members will be laid off. The company doesn't elaborate on how many staff members will be affected.
It does, however, say that it's "committed to minimizing this impact as much as possible", and that it will be "exploring all options to retain talent", so it sounds like the final number of layoffs hasn't been decided yet.
This move essentially means that Sumo...
