The house of Lara Croft is reducing much more workers in its fourth spherical of layoffs in only a 12 months. Crystal Dynamics not too long ago revealed Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis and Tomb Raider: Catalyst at The Sport Awards 2025 and guarantees they’ll each stay unaffected whilst AAA gaming continues to wrestle.
The studio introduced on March 18 that it was reducing 20 folks throughout “some improvement personnel and a few central operations roles.” That’s along with 30 folks laid off final November, an unspecified quantity reduce final August, and 17 folks let go final March.
“As our present tasks transfer into new phases of improvement, we repeatedly take a tough take a look at our workforce buildings to make sure they align with our long-term studio objectives,” the corporate wrote on LinkedIn. “Whereas we at all times try to transition our folks into new roles at any time when attainable, we’ve got sadly reached some extent the place these departures are mandatory.”
Crystal Dynamics, which can be identified for 2020’s live-service fumble Marvel’s Avengers, had a headcount of 273 again in 2022. It’s since confronted a number of rounds of downsizing amid mismanagement at father or mother firm Embracer and Microsoft’s cancelation of Good Darkish final 12 months, which the studio was co-developing on the time with The Initiative.
The group is presently working to ship Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis, an Unreal Engine 5 remake of the unique 1996 hit, and Tomb Raider: Catalyst, a brand new entry within the collection that goals to take the action-adventure puzzle components right into a extra open-world format. Whereas the remake is scheduled to launch later this 12 months, Catalyst has been in improvement for a number of years and nonetheless doesn’t have a agency launch date past 2027.
“We all know that information like this could trigger concern amongst our neighborhood. Crystal Dynamics stays totally dedicated to the longer term improvement of our already introduced Tomb Raider titles,” the studio wrote on Wednesday. “At this time, nevertheless, our precedence is supporting our colleagues who’re transferring on.”
Each blockbusters are being printed by Amazon Sport Studios, which not too long ago ditched its AAA gaming ambitions because it retreats to low-cost celebration video games. Amazon has stated it stays dedicated to publishing the video games although it’s not clear the place that matches in its bigger portfolio of gaming tasks. The tech big can be growing a Tomb Raider TV collection for Amazon Prime.
