The founder of the Outsiders and Creative Director of Metal Hellsinger David Goldfarb confirmed that his studio is closed by the Funcom maternal company.
In a statement published BlueGoldfarb wrote: “I did not have much time to think about this news, but we all in The Outsiders and Funcom Stockholm suffered from dismissal in Funcom, and our 10-year studio will close.”
Funcom, Oslo Studio, which developed the recently released Dune: Awakening, announced that on October 1 she dismissed employees.. In the statement sent GamesindUstry.biz At that time, the developer said that the survival game in the open world was the “largest release in our entire 32-year history of creating excellent games”, and then said that employees would be dismissed as part of the studio restructuring.
In his statement, Goldfarb said that the “many” team members “survived an almost deadly studio experience many years ago, when DarkBorn was closed, and due to the loyalty of this team and refusal to leave, Metal Hellsinger was born.”
“For me personally, this will always be a star moment, and I will be always grateful to us for managing to do this, as well as for a wonderful team and partnerships, thanks to which this happened,” he added.
“This time we hoped to do something even better. [but] Things do not always go the way you hope.
“But we do not give up and are going to try to continue working in some new form. If you think that you can help in any way, with the help of business leaders, employees, management, etc., I would be sincerely grateful if you turned here. Changes are always difficult, and now we all hurt. Thank you very much”.
This leads to a general assessment The number of developers dismissed in 2025 will reach at least 4400Although many companies, such as Funcom, do not indicate the number of injured employees, the real figure is probably much larger.
