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Dune: Awakening Developer Funcom Is Laying Off Staff and Shutting Down a Studio

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Funcom, the Tencent-owned company behind Dune: Awakening, is laying off staff and shutting down Metal: Hellsinger developer The Outsiders.
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The now large cemetery of former well-known developer studios is still filling up. With The Outsiders, a Stockholm studio has to close the doors, which has recently also contributed to Dune: Awakening.

Despite Dune's millions of success: Awakening, Funcom's Stockholm studio The Outsiders is surprisingly closed.

If you enjoyed the fast-paced and forceful metal rhythmic shooter: Hellsinger when he arrived in 2022, we have some bad news to share, as the developer behind the game is officially closing. As revealed in a statement by its founder and creative director, David Goldfarb, The Outsiders will close its doors definitively, because the recent wave of layoffs that has affected the parent company, Funcom, has also affected the studio.

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Wccftech broke the news in on Monday, October 6, 2025.
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