Splash Damage has entered a “Studio-Wide consultation process” that will most likely result in numerous people losing their jobs. Within the UK, a consultation process is triggered when at least 20 redundancies are proposed to be made within a 90 day period.
The process follows on from the company announcing in September that it has been bought by an unknown private equity firm.
Due to UK laws, Splash Damage must notify and consult with employee representatives or trade unions, with required notice periods of at least 30 days if there are 20 to 99 redundancies or 45 days if 100 or more are expected.
Splash Damage themselves confirmed the news on LinkedIn: “Today we announced to our teams that we are entering a studio-wide consultation process affecting all roles. This was a difficult step for us to take, but we believe it is necessary so Splash Damage can remain agile and adaptable in what has been a very challenging market.”
Splash Damage hasn’t released a major game in five years, if you don’t count a mobile title in 2021. The last big releases were the excellent Gears Tactics in 2020, and Outcasters – exclusive to the doomed Google Stadia – in the same year.
Splash Damage was founded back in 2001, and would go on to work on several games with other developers, as well as producing many of its own, such as the awesome Enemy territory: Quake Wars in 2007. The company has had a hand in multiple big franchises, including DOOM and Batman. From 2015 to around 2020, the company worked with Microsoft on the Gears franchise. It was around this time it was acquired by Leyou Technologies, a Chinese holding company. In December 2020, that company was gobbled up by Tencent.
I’d also love to throw a nod to Brink in 2011, an ambitious shooter that flopped at the time, but with the benefit of hindsight was probably well ahead of its time and could have done better in the PS4/Xbox One era.
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Author: 360 Technology Group
