Mediatonic, the once-independent developer behind platformer battle royale Fall Guys, has seemingly been hit especially hard by the massive layoffs at 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Epic Games today - to the point that one director at the studio has shared a photo of the studio logo in a depreꦿssing anagram: "decimation."

Since news broke earlier today that 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Epic was set to lay off 830 people, numerous Mediatonic employees have confꦫirmed on social media that they're among those affected. Those include artists, programmers, level designers, IT support sꦛtaff, and more, and many are already beginning to publicly seek new work.

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Mediatonic is an English studio founded way back in 2005. For much of its history, it developed web and mobile games for a variety of publishers, but the studio gained a bit of meme-worthy prominence with its remake of the Japanese pigeon dating sim Hatoful Boyfriend in 2014. The studio wouldn't truly break out𒐪 until 2020, however, when it released the well-regarded Phoenix Wright-meets-Picross game, Murder by Numbers, and its biggest hit, Fall Guys.

Fall Guys found imm🌳ediate su🎉ccess, with its approachable hybrid of platforming action and battle royale structure bolstered by an early giveaway as part of PS Plus. In the wake of the game's success, Mediatonic was acquired by Epic in 2021, and the game was relaunched as a free-to-play title in 2022. But over the years, Fall Guys has struggled to recapture its early success.

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Embracer Group has been another major purveyor of layoffs this year, including numerous casualties at the Tomb Raider studio.