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Skydance Games lay off an undisclosed number of staff in the wake of Paramount-Warner Bros. merger, in latest case of consolidation killing livelihoods
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Skydance Games lay off an undisclosed number of staff in the wake of Paramount-Warner Bros. merger, in latest case of consolidation killing livelihoods

Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed·Ashley Schofield·about 5 hours ago
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A little over a month following the huge, vile, culture-defining (negative) merger between Paramount and Warner Bros. into Skydance, the corporation has confirmed that games division Skydance Games will be facing a round of layoffs, according to a report from Variety .

Skydance Games was born from combining Paramount and Warner Bros' own individual divisions, bringing developers like NetherRealm, Rocksteady, WB Games Montreal/Boston, TT Games and Avalanche under the same umbrella as Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra developers and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin publishers Paramount Games Studio. All this was was done, of course, to maximise the amount of IP that the corporation can access to base games on, such as Avatar: The Last Airbender, Game of Thrones, Star Trek, the DC Universe, Harry Potter , and more.…

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