One other day, one other layoff announcement. This time it comes from Zero Parades: For Dead Spies developer ZA/UM, which stated on social media that regardless of the sport’s important acclaim, the studio cannot maintain the scale of its crew.
ZA/UM took to Bluesky on July 17 to share the unlucky information. The crew stated that though Zero Parades reviewed effectively, “its industrial efficiency” made it tough for the studio to take care of its present worker depend. In consequence, the corporate has “served redundancy or at-risk notices” to as much as 32 staffers on the RPG studio.
“All through this tough course of, we have now continued to seek the advice of and work with representatives of the ZA/UM Employees’ Alliance,” the studio wrote on Bluesky. “This adjustments the form of ZA/UM, however not its objective. Our creative requirements stay unchanged: We are going to persist.”
Zero Parades: For Useless Spies is the second sport from ZA/UM following the studio’s 2019 outing Disco Elysium. Launched in May 2026 for PC with a PS5 version coming later this year, Zero Parades is an isometric espionage RPG a couple of feminine operative named Hershel Wilk who’s tasked with uncovering the secrets and techniques of her haunted previous. It is chilling and thrilling in the very best methods, receiving an 8/10 in GameSpot’s Zero Parades: For Dead Spies review and an 83 score on Metacritic.
ZA/UM is the newest developer to undergo layoffs, as 2026 has seen the video games trade rattled by myriad studio closures and worker terminations. Earlier this month, Xbox let go of 1,600 staffers as a part of its massive “reset” earlier this month, with one other 1,600 deliberate to get laid off within the subsequent 12 months. Skate studio Full Circle was additionally hit with layoffs in February 2026, as was 2XKO developer Riot Games in the identical month. In the meantime, Sony shut down Bluepoint Games, the developer accountable for some glorious remakes, in February as effectively. It looks like in all places you look, one other layoff occurs.
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