As reports that major layoffs are coming to multiple Microsoft-owned game studios continue to swirl, numerous developers at South of Midnight studio Compulsion Games have indicated that they are leaving the studio and looking for new work.
Posting "open to work" messages on LinkedIn is a very common way for game industry employees to search for new opportunities—and, sadly, it's also often a first sign of layoffs at game studios.
That was initially thought to be the situation here as well, but according to Bloomberg's Jason Schreier it's not the case: Schreier said on Reddit that with layoffs looming, "studio leadership gave their employees permission to openly look for work because they almost certainly will be losing their...


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