Just one day after layoffs at , Torn Banner, and Sweet Bandits , Friday the 13th developer Illfonic has announced that it too is making cuts to its staff.
"Today we had to accept the harsh reality that the state of the industry has impacted us here at Illfonic," co-founder and CEO Charles Brunghardt wrote in a message posted to . "It is with the heaviest of hearts that cuts to our teams had to be made today as we re-aligned to a refined strategy."
Brunghardt didn't say how many employees were put out of work, but former community and social media manager Michael Robles said on LinkedIn that "a lot of very talented people were laid off."
Illfonic was founded in 2007 and found success, [[link]] despite some high-profile troubles, with Friday the 13th: The Game. We , and it was a success, selling over its first few months of release. But work was brought up short in 2018 by a of the Friday the 13th property. Illfonic's follow-up games did not fare as well. was not great and failed to attract much of an audience, while the multiplayer horror game , released earlier this year, was better received but also garnered little attention.
Like yesterday's layoffs at Ubisoft, Torn Banner, and Sweet Bandits (and the late November shutdowns of and ), these cuts seem especially brutal because of their proximity to the holidays. In the bigger picture, though, they represent an industry in a state of freefall, put there by Covid-19 mismanagement and the relentless pursuit of profit. As I said earlier today, because this keeps happening so often and so quickly, 2023 was awful and 2024 is set to be even worse: This kind of attrition [[link]] is simply not sustainable, and yet at this point I don't have much hope that things are [[link]] going to be meaningfully better in 2025.
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