Auroch Digital, the studio behind Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun and Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War! recently posted an announcement to its LinkedIn page, breaking the news that it would be laying off as much as 25% of its workforce due to “market conditions.” However, shortly after the studio announced the layoffs, as covered by GameIndustry, the announcement post disappeared. The original post read:Auroch Digital via GameIndustryOver the past year our colleagues have delivered amazing games like Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2 and Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War! to wonderful reception from our players. Despite that creative success, the same market conditions that have challenged so many of our fellow developers have now also affected us. Consequently, we have made the decision to restructure the studio to work through a turbulent and uncertain time in our industry.
The announcement added that the studio will be conducting “a redundancy consultation process affecting around a quarter of roles at the studio.”
While the post publicly announcing the layoffs has since disappeared, PC Gamer reports that two employees at Auroch have since confirmed the layoffs. The layoffs come just shy of two weeks after one week after Auroch Digital released Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2 and while Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life and Warhammer Survivors are still in development, with a release date for the former pending announcement. It’s likely that the announcement will reappear online once the requisite workers unions and government institutions have been informed, as is usually the case with redundancy negotiations.