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Supermassive Games Is Delaying Directive 8020 and Laying Off Staff

Summary by Engadget
Supermassive Games, the developer behind story-driven games like Until Dawn, The Quarry and The Dark Pictures Anthology, is cutting its workforce due to the ongoing "challenging" state of the games industry. The studio says it’s having to adapt its team structure and as a consequence expects to lose up to 36 employees. The current size of the Supermassive’s staff is unclear, but in February last year it cut somewhere in the region of 90 jobs, at…

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Initially expected for October 2, Directive 8020 obviously had the potential to animate the players' evenings for the next Halloween. Unfortunately, this will not be the case, not for this year in any case, since the English developers of Supermassive Games have just announced the postponement of the game for 2026. Bad news that comes with a wave of layoffs in the British studio, with the departure of 36 employees, which represents about ten per…

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Gamespot broke the news in United States on Tuesday, July 22, 2025.
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