Niantic Spatial Lays Off 68 Employees Following Sale of Games Business to Scopely

WB Games Montréal video game developer removes more than 60 jobs, four months after the elimination of 99 jobs, two weeks from the holiday season.

Niantic Spatial Lays Off 68 Employees Following Sale of Games Business to Scopely

Niantic Spatial, the tech company that remains of Niantic after it sold off its games business to Scopely last month, just laid off 68 people following the roughly $3.5 billion transaction.

Scopely clarifies Niantic layoff reports

Scopely has told us that it will not be making any workforce reductions at its newly-owned Niantic game teams. As you may have read across the games media in the last day or two, Niantic made 68 layoffs following the sale of its game business to Scopely for $3.5bn in March. But those layoffs were at Niantic Spatial, the spun-out, non-gaming entity focused on AR tech. Those layoffs were also already previously announced in a blog published on Mar…

Following the sale of Pokemon Go and other games for $3.8B, Niantic is laying off more staff

Just a month ago, we learned that Niantic had secured a deal to sell its games division to Scopely, a US-based studio that is part of Saudi Arabia’s Savvy Games Group. That deal included Pokemon Go, Pikmin Bloom, and Monster Hunter Now, and all the of their teams, for a whopping $3.85B US. At the […]

Niantic Lays Off Several Employees After Selling Pokemon GO

Earlier this year, Niantic announced they would be selling off their entire games division, including Pokemon GO, Pikmin Bloom, and more. Unfortunately, this sale has also come with a round of layo…

Niantic is laying off 68 staff following its acquisition by Scopely

The Monopoly Go maker acquired Niantic’s game business including Pokémon Go for $3.5…