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Multiple staff said to have lost their jobs at Visual Concepts Austin
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Image credit:2K
Visual Concepts Austin, the 2K Games studio behind sports franchises including WWE and NBA, as well as last year’s kart racing gameLego 2K Drive, has reportedly laid off a number of employees. The cuts come fewer than six months after the last round of layoffs at the Texas outlet.
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Among those affected was art manager Brad Bowling, who posted on LinkedIn (viaGame Developer) that “a group of very talented developers” had been let go from the studio. Software engineer Sydney F. similarly confirmed she had been laid off alongside “several other amazing colleagues”, with the exact number of developers affected still to be confirmed. The studio and owner 2K Games are yet to comment publicly on the layoffs.
“The games industry bloodletting continues,” Bowling said. “Over the past 23 years of making game art, I have seen some downturns but nothing like this.”
The latest layoffs come less than half a year after a previous wave ofreported job cutsat the Austin studio affecting departments including QA, design and production.
Last year Visual Concepts Austin released wrestling gameWWE2K23 andcharming kart racer Lego 2K Drive, having previously also worked on basketball gameNBA 2K21.
The Visual Concepts Austin layoffs join more than 6,000reported job lossesacross the games industry so far in 2024, following more than 10,000 last year.
