{"id":504211,"date":"2026-06-17T11:05:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T11:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/504211\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T11:05:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T11:05:14","slug":"luna-abyss-development-team-laid-off-by-kwalee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/504211\/","title":{"rendered":"Luna Abyss development team laid off by Kwalee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\">UK publisher Kwalee has laid off the development team behind Luna Abyss less than a month after it hit shelves.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\">The bullet hell shooter launched on May 21, 2026, and was developed by Kwalee Labs, which was formerly known as Bonsai Collective before being acquired by Kwalee through administration in September 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\">A LinkedIn post from studio CEO Hollie Emery explains the entire nine-person team has been laid off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\">&#8220;We&#8217;re enamoured by the love and support it received both by our industry and critically by journalists and media. Whilst we faced many challenges along the way, it has been the highlight of our careers\u2014and we are incredibly proud that it has finally seen the light of day (thank you to everyone who believed in us!),&#8221; <a class=\"ContentText-BodyTextChunk ContentText-BodyTextChunk_link\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/hollie-emery-074a625b_hey-folks-i-have-some-sad-news-from-the-share-7472658276480946177-QHk2\/?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop&amp;rcm=ACoAAAoO_OkB-VfPR7dhiZ-PZ-9sf_EfWliEy1k\">wrote Emery<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\">&#8220;Unfortunately as of yesterday, the entire team has been made redundant; a decision that was completely outside of our control. As a result, the entire team are available for work as of today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-component=\"related-article\" class=\"RelatedArticle\">Related:<a class=\"RelatedArticle-RelatedContent\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamedeveloper.com\/business\/treyarch-studio-head-steps-down-after-22-years\" target=\"_self\" data-discover=\"true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Treyarch studio head steps down after 22 years<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\">Kwalee has published over 70 titles across PC, console, and mobile that have collectively amassed over 30 million monthly active users.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\">Game Developer has reached out to the company for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UK publisher Kwalee has laid off the development team behind Luna Abyss less than a month after it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,80],"class_list":["post-504211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}