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Activision lays off 40 at High Moon Studios

With Deadpool complete, Activision makes cuts

Activision has cut around 40 full-time employees at Transformers: Fall of Cybertron developer High Moon Studios. The layoffs are centered around the team behind the upcoming Deadpool game, which has finished development. The layoffs were confirmed by the publisher in a statement to Kotaku.

"Activision Publishing consistently works to align its costs with its revenues - this is an ongoing process. With the completion of development on Deadpool, we are taking a reduction in staff at High Moon Studios to better align our development talent against our slate. Approximately, 40 full-time employees will be impacted globally. We are offering those employees who are impacted outplacement counseling services," the company told Kotaku.

These layoffs come directly after GDC, so hopefully many of those affected had a chance to reach out and find new employment.

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M.H. Williams is new to the journalism game, but he's been a gamer since the NES first graced American shores. Third-person action-adventure games are his personal poison: Uncharted, Infamous, and Assassin's Creed just to name a few. If you see him around a convention, he's not hard to spot: Black guy, glasses, and a tie.