Angry Birds Pop! and Subway Surfers Blast Studio Parts Ways With 15% of Its Employees
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Key points
- Outplay Entertainment has laid off 21 employees.
- Most of the studio’s games have been in collaboration and partnership with other studios.
- Outplay Entertainment had 135 employees before the layoffs.
Outplay Entertainment is reducing its employee count by 15% as it parts ways with 21 employees, according to a report by MobileGamer.biz. Since Outplay Entertainment only employs around 135 people, this is a huge blow.
“This step was taken to align our operations with current business realities and to support a strategic shift toward partnering with publishers for future game releases,” Outplay Entertainment CEO Douglas Hare told MobileGamer.biz. He also added that it wasn’t an easy decision to make.
The CEO confirmed that the studio is helping those who lost their jobs due to the restructuring. It also seemed that the layoffs included different departments of the company, but the CEO did not clarify which parts got hit.
Outplay Entertainment is the studio behind Angry Birds Pop!, Subway Surfers Blast and Gordon Ramsay’s Chef Blast. Most of their highest-rated games have been collaborations with other studios, with Gordon Ramsay’s Chef Blast having a rating of 4.8 stars on the Google Play Store and more than 1 million downloads.
The studio isn’t that active on social media, with its most recent post on both X and Facebook dating back to November last year. Outplay Entertainment is based in Scotland.
