007 First Light’s developer lays off staff but claims its next franchise will continue

IO Interactive, the workplace down the Hitman bid and 007 First Light, announced that it is laying disconnected staff aft a narration with an "external partner" connected its adjacent large franchise, Project Fantasy, "has travel to an end." IO has described Project Fantasy as an "online phantasy RPG", and Kotaku and Bloomberg study that Microsoft, which is planning important cuts arsenic portion of a broader "reset" of the Xbox business, was going to beryllium the game's publisher.

It's unclear however galore radical volition beryllium affected by IO's "staffing decisions." The institution says "we are afloat committed to supporting those affected done this challenging transition." IO al …

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