Embracer shuts down Alone in the Dark reboot studio Pieces Interactive

has closed yet one more studio. This time round, the embattled firm has shut down Items Interactive, the developer of the current .

A picture posted on reads “Items Interactive 2007 – 2024. Thanks for taking part in with us.” The entrance web page of notes that the developer has launched greater than 10 titles of its personal during the last 17 years. It additionally labored as a help studio on different tasks.

Embracer purchased Items in 2017 and positioned it beneath the umbrella of writer THQ Nordic. In April, reviews emerged that Items had , just some weeks after releasing Alone within the Darkish (which had a ).

The closure of Items comes a number of weeks after Embracer mentioned it had concluded its restructuring process following the collapse of a proposed $2 billion funding a 12 months in the past. The corporate shut down a number of studios, together with TimeSplitters developer and (Saints Row), and it laid off almost 1,400 employees within the second half of 2023. Embracer has additionally offered off a number of studios, together with massive components of in addition to .

In the meantime, yet one more studio is shutting its doorways. Galvanic Video games founder Patrick Morgan that the corporate is closing. Morgan that regardless of a promising begin, gross sales of Gavlanic’s last recreation, Wizard with a Gun, had been “not robust sufficient to maintain our studio.”

The variety of layoffs in the game industry to this point in 2024 is estimated to be around 10,800. That is already greater than the ten,500 complete for all of 2023, and we’re not even midway by means of the 12 months.