{"id":374876,"date":"2026-08-11T11:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T18:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=374876"},"modified":"2026-08-11T11:40:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T18:40:03","slug":"supermassive-games-announces-up-to-75-layoffs-ahead-of-little-nightmares-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/supermassive-games-announces-up-to-75-layoffs-ahead-of-little-nightmares-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"Supermassive Games announces up to 75 layoffs ahead of Little Nightmares III"},"content":{"rendered":"

Supermassive Games, the UK studio behind Until Dawn<\/a> and The Dark Pictures Anthology<\/a>, said today that up to 75 jobs<\/strong> could go. The company has opened a formal consultation process and described the cuts as a \u201cnecessary step\u201d for the studio\u2019s long-term sustainability.<\/p>\n

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It comes in another bad stretch for the games business. If the reduction goes through, it would mark Supermassive\u2019s third straight year<\/strong> of layoffs, and this one is a big hit for a studio that reportedly reached around 350 employees in 2023.<\/p>\n\n

Waiting on Little Nightmares III<\/a>? Then pay attention.<\/p>\n\n

Supermassive took over the Little Nightmares<\/a> series from Tarsier Studios, which makes Little Nightmares III<\/a> an especially important game for the studio, creatively and commercially. The game was already delayed to 2025<\/strong>, so this is likely to bring a new round of concern about the schedule, the level of polish, and what post-launch support might look like, even though there\u2019s still no confirmation of another delay.<\/p>\n\n

The cuts also come after an uneven run for the studio, including the mixed reaction to The Dark Pictures Anthology: Directive 8020 in 2026. And the next project connected to Until Dawn isn\u2019t being made by Supermassive at all, with Firesprite handling that one instead.<\/p>\n\n

Right now, Supermassive says it\u2019s supporting affected staff and continuing work on its active projects. That\u2019s where things stand as the layoff wave that started in 2022<\/strong> keeps tearing through the games industry, hitting companies like Microsoft and EA and continuing to change studios people have known for years.<\/p>\n

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Supermassive Games, the UK studio behind Until Dawn and The Dark Pictures Anthology, said today that up to 75 jobs could go. The company has opened a formal consultation process and described the cuts as a \u201cnecessary step\u201d for the studio\u2019s long-term sustainability. It comes in another bad stretch for the games business. If the … Continue reading “Supermassive Games announces up to 75 layoffs ahead of Little Nightmares III”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9326,"featured_media":374875,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-374876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":374877,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374876\/revisions\/374877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374876"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=374876"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=374876"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=374876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}