Sony Santa Monica - team behind God of War hit with layoffs

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Sony Santa Monica, best known for God of War, was hit with a severe round of layoffs today. Sony reps have confirmed the departures with leading news venues citing "resource re-alignment against priority growth areas" for Sony Worldwide Studios as a whole.

SCEA can confirm that we have completed a reduction in workforce at Santa Monica Studio. This is a result of a cycle of resource re-alignment against priority growth areas within SCE WWS. We do not take these decisions lightly. However, sometimes it is necessary to make changes to better serve the future projects of the studio. We have offered outplacement services and severance packages to ease transition for those impacted.Sony


The studio most recently shipped out God of War: Ascension while working on three collabs due for launch this year: Hohokum with Honeyslug; The Order: 1886 with Ready at Dawn; and Everybody's Gone to the Rapture with The Chinese Room. The company's comment did not specify if these layoffs were going to affect ongoing projects.

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MultitaskPosted:

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-Dynamic
Aftercast This happenes with a lot of games, like thief.


Apparently Thief is quite a good game.


I have heard it is terrible and that it is a pretty bad game.


I've never liked the game to be honest.


i love God of war its a great game the boss fights are amazing.

MawderzPosted:

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Aftercast This happenes with a lot of games, like thief.


Apparently Thief is quite a good game.


I have heard it is terrible and that it is a pretty bad game.


I've never liked the game to be honest.

DanimalsPosted:

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Krookodile So I guess this means it's the end for God of War?


No, they are just setting it aside for the time being.


The game is honestly terrible, I liked the first one, but the third and second one is not that great.


god of war has been good in my opinion and it sucks to see them go through rough times like this

DV8Posted:

-Dynamic
Aftercast This happenes with a lot of games, like thief.


Apparently Thief is quite a good game.


I have heard it is terrible and that it is a pretty bad game.

InvictusPosted:

I never heard of this, sounds boring.

-DynamicPosted:

Aftercast This happenes with a lot of games, like thief.


Apparently Thief is quite a good game.

-DynamicPosted:

Never even heard of this game it doesn't sound to good either.

YopPosted:

The first God Of War was such a fantastic game.

TelePosted:

This game looks bad, truthfully.

DV8Posted:

Valor
Krookodile So I guess this means it's the end for God of War?


No, they are just setting it aside for the time being.


The game is honestly terrible, I liked the first one, but the third and second one is not that great.


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