Take-Two has reportedly laid off staff at several divisions including its indie publishing label Private Division.
TheRockstarand2K Gamesowner announced last month that was planning some layoffsas part of a $50 million “cost reduction program”.
And according to Bloomberg reporterJason Schreier, the cuts have today hit staff atPrivate Divisionand otherTake-Twobusiness units.
Private Division is the publisher of titles including the Kerbal Space Program franchise,The Outer Worldsand OlliOlli World. It also has unannounced projects in development withMoon Studios, Evening Star and Yellow Brick Games.
In a statement, Take-Two spokesperson Alan Lewis said the cuts “will better align our organization with our long-term priorities” and claimed that the impact on dev teams is “minimal.”
The company said last month that the cost reduction program would include “personnel, processes, infrastructure, and other areas, and will primarily focus on corporate and publishing functions”.
And in an interview withGamesIndustry.biz, Take-Two CEOStrauss Zelnicksaid the publisher wasn’t planning a “broad-based reduction” in its workforce.
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“We continue to support and build our development teams, and where we have overhead, we have to be very diligent about looking at the overhead,” he said.
“We don’t expect any kind of broad-based reduction in force. We are going department by department and trying to drive efficiency.”
