Embracer reportedly laying off Gearbox Publishing employees

Embracer Group’s restructuring plan appears to have affected Gearbox Publishing. Following yesterday’s closure of development studio Volition, posts from Gearbox employees surfaced this week indicating that they were also laid off thanks to Embracer’s rebuilding efforts. Several employees report being laid off as far back as June.

Game Developer reported the LinkedIn posts, which include personal announcements of layoffs from as recently as early August. One former Gearbox employee, Allan Jacquemart, said, “Unfortunately, no one saw it coming, but my contract and those of my colleagues who started in June had to be terminated on the last day of our probation month (which also happened to be my birthday, yay). We were simply victims of the group’s restructuring.” Jacquemart was a French localization specialist at Gearbox’s Amsterdam location.