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Publisher Krafton say it’s in an effort to “realign the studio’s priorities”
Image credit:Krafton
Image credit:Krafton
Striking Distance, the studio behind last year’s alien horror stomp ‘em upThe Callisto Protocol, have suffered layoffs affecting 32 employees in what their publisher calls an effort to “realign the studio’s priorities to better position its current and future projects.”
The Callisto Protocol came out late last year and served as a kind of spiritual successor to horror classicDead Space, with that series’ former producer Glen Schofield at the helm. Despite that tempting proposition, areportrevealed the game was expected to sell five million copies in order to recoup its heavy production budget, but as of January 2023, it had only shifted two million.
Alice Bee’sreviewtook issue with the game’s unconventional combat controls and technical woes on the PC side. Later patches did address the PC version’s stuttering issues, but the game was still“just allllright.”
