A third of staff are at risk of losing their jobs at Velan Studios, the company behind Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit and shutdown dodgeball game Knockout City.
Velan Studios announced the likelihood of layoffs in a statement from the company's founders, Guha and Karthik Bala, who said that 46 people out of the team's current total of 121 had been given notice their positions may be impacted.
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The company will now reorganize its staff to refocus around several current, unannounced projects set to launch later in 2024, while hunting for new partnerships to minimize the impact of layoffs.
“This is a rough environment for a lot of indie studios, and like them, we are faced with some very hard choices,” the statement said. “We hope to rescind as many notifications as possible.”
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Based in New York state, Velan Studios was set up in 2016 by Guha and Karthik Bala, the brothers who previously founded Vicarious Visions and grew that studio as it was acquired by Activision, subsequently found fame for developing Skylanders, before it was folded into Blizzard's Diablo development arm.
Velan Studios' most recent release was Hot Wheels: Rift Rally, which launched for PlayStation consoles and smartphones last year.
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