Eidos-Montréal, the Embracer-owned studio presently offering assist on Microsoft’s Fable reboot, is shedding “as much as” 75 members of workers, saying it does not “have the capability to completely reallocate them to our different ongoing tasks and companies.”
Information of the layoffs – which follows 97 job cuts at Eidos-Montréal final yr – was confirmed in a assertion shared on social media. “Right this moment, we knowledgeable our studio workers that we’re going to let go as much as 75 useful members,” the studio wrote, “as one in every of our mandates is coming to an finish. It’s not a mirrored image of their dedication or abilities, however sadly, we do not have the capability to completely reallocate them to our different ongoing tasks and companies.
“These very proficient, extremely skilled specialists are going to enter the employment market,” the assertion continued, “and we’re working to assist them by means of this transition. Eidos-Montréal stays dedicated to ship its different tasks presently in improvement.”
Eidos-Montréal’s most up-to-date recreation, Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, launched in 2021 when the studio was nonetheless owned by writer Sq. Enix. Following its buy by Embracer Group in 2022, nonetheless, it was reportedly set to work creating a brand new recreation within the Deus Ex sequence – a undertaking that was canned final yr amid a devastating programme of “restructuring” and price slicing at Embracer Group that resulted in over 4500 job losses throughout the corporate.
Since then, it has been confirmed Eidos-Montréal is aiding Microsoft’s Playground Video games because the Xbox studio makes an attempt to get its long-awaited – and just lately delayed – Fable reboot over the end line. Right this moment’s assertion suggests Fable is not Eidos-Montréal’s solely undertaking, but it surely’s unclear what else the studio could also be engaged on at current.
Layoffs have continued to blight the video games business in 2025 following an already devastating few years which have seen over 25,000 workers lose their jobs because the begin of 2023. To date this yr, 1200 layoffs have been recorded, affecting employees throughout the likes of Unity, PlayStation, Ubisoft, Warner Bros. Video games, Sumo Digital, Splash Injury, Bossa Studios, Evening Faculty, and Cyan, Inc. Outcomes of a GDC State of the Video games Business survey shared earlier this yr revealed one in 10 of the 3000 builders canvassed had been laid off in 2024.
