The SEGA crisis continues in Europe: last year the company downsized Creative Assembly and canceled the Hyenas project with the aim of making the European division's business more profitable, now further cuts are coming to our continent.
In particular SEGA Corporation has sold the Relic Entertainment studio, author of Company of Heroes, Dawn of War and the most recent new episode of Age of Empires developed for Microsoft. Relic will therefore return to being an independent studio with no longer any connection to SEGA.
The company also says it has laid off 240 people in Europemost of the employees in question were employed in Creative Assembly (already hit by a series of layoffs last autumn after the announcement of the cancellation of Hyenas) and in the offices of SEGA Europe while a small part worked in HARDLight, a studio mainly dedicated to mobile game development.
The press release released by SEGA Corporation does not mention other European studios of the publisher such as Two Point Studios (authors of Two Point Hospital and Two Point Campus) e Sports Interactivestudio author of the Football Manager series.
In recent months there has also been talk of cuts in SEGA of America, but at the moment the layoffs have only affected the European branches of SEGA Corporation.
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