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007 Legends developer Eurocom cut down to 50 employees
Posted: 23.11.2012 13:11 by Simon Priest Comments: 2
Director Hugh Binns of Eurocom has confirmed that his studio has shed a lot of job positions, revealing that 50 members of staff remain on the payroll as they've made the "majority of our workforce redundant".

That painful figure includes "very experienced, talented and highly skilled" developers as the studio "fought to try and save as many jobs as possible," but a decline in demand forced restructuring.

Eurocom's latest title was 007 Legends which received a poor critical reception as it languishes with a Metacritic score of just 45 for Xbox 360. Mobile is the new focus.

“Eurocom are undertaking a restructuring which I regret to say has meant we’ve made the majority of our workforce redundant today," confirmed Hugh Binns following rumours of massive layoffs. “This includes many very experienced, talented and highly skilled employees, and we’d like to thank them all for your hard work and efforts.”

“We’ve fought to try and save as many jobs as possible, but the steep decline in demand for console games, culminating in a number of console projects falling through in the last week, left us with no option. Eurocom has retained a core staff of just under 50 employees and will be focusing mainly on mobile opportunities moving forward.”

Source: VG247

Comments

By The_Tingler (SI Veteran Member) on Nov 23, 2012
The_Tingler
If more proof were needed that the Bond licence was developer poison, here it is. For the record, apart from 007 Legends you guys have made some really fun Bond games.
By herodotus (SI Herodotus) on Nov 23, 2012
herodotus
If this is their last Bond release, it's a great shame. As with "MoH: Warfighter" Devs discovered much to their concern, if you release a shonky product don't expect the gaming public nor the reviewers to embrace it (unless you've bribed the latter, not including SI obviously).