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Valorant and League of Legends agency Riot Video games joins the rising listing of firms to have made redundancies previously few weeks.
The layoffs have been first revealed by esports reporter Jacob Wolf via Twitter, earlier than Riot confirmed the information in an announcement to GamesIndustry.biz sister website Rock Paper Shotgun.
Wolf reported that affected employees included members of human sources, recruitment, assist and esports divisions. Riot confirmed 46 folks throughout a number of groups have been let go, however didn’t give specifics.
The spokesperson stated: “Riot Video games applied strategic shifts inside a number of groups to sharpen our focus in various areas. With these shifts, sure roles have been eradicated, impacting a complete of 46 Rioters.”
“That is a part of our regular course of our enterprise: We periodically make modifications to our construction and our groups based mostly on what we imagine will enable us to ship the most effective content material and experiences for gamers.
“We by no means make these selections flippantly and can at all times begin from a spot of eager to retain Rioters and have them deal with our highest priorities. Whereas that is not at all times attainable, it is our major aim.”
This month, there have been redundancies throughout a number of main video games corporations, together with 10,000 folks at Microsoft (with some Bethesda and 343 Industries employees let go), in addition to workers at Unity, NetEase, Wizards of the Coast and Ubisoft.
