The game studio building a new BioShock just had mass layoffs

The squad moving connected the adjacent BioShock crippled is losing a 3rd of its staff. According to Bloomberg, Take-Two is laying disconnected much than 80 radical astatine Cloud Chamber, which has been moving connected a caller BioShock title, and the crippled has been delayed from a planned motorboat successful precocious 2026 oregon aboriginal 2027.

The crippled has already had a rocky development, and the changes apt mean that the caller rubric whitethorn inactive beryllium years away. The past crippled successful the series, BioShock Infinite, was released successful 2013.

To assistance get this caller introduction backmost connected track, 2K Games, the part of Take-Two that oversees Cloud Chamber, has hired Rod Fergusson, formerly the caput of the Diablo squad astatine Blizzard and helped get BioShock Infinite implicit the decorativeness line, to pb the Cloud Chamber team. “I’m profoundly grateful for the enactment the workplace has done truthful far, and I’m committed to gathering a BioShock crippled we’ll beryllium arrogant of and that our players volition love,” Fergusson wrote yesterday.

In an interior memo announcing the Cloud Chamber layoffs, 2K Games president David Ismailer said that “while we’re excited astir the foundational gameplay elements of the project, we’ve made the determination with workplace enactment to rework definite aspects that are halfway to a BioShock game, and successful doing truthful are reducing the size of the improvement squad to absorption connected this enactment and springiness the crippled much clip successful development,” per a memo published by Variety.

Take-Two didn’t instantly reply to a petition for remark from The Verge.