{"id":15222,"date":"2011-11-01T11:57:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T09:57:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"rumour-control-massive-layoffs-at-silicon-knights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/15222-rumour-control-massive-layoffs-at-silicon-knights","title":{"rendered":"Rumour control: \u201cMassive layoffs\u201d at Silicon Knights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian dev, Silicon Knights, has pink-slipped about three quarters of its staff, according to &ldquo;two credible independent sources&rdquo; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.1up.com\/news\/silicon-knights-layoffs\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"1UP Reports\">over at 1UP<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Silicon Knights has had massive layoffs. They are now down to a core staff of 25 people,&rdquo; claims one source.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I heard they laid off all of HR, including Denis&#8217; [Dyack, president] wife,&#8221; claims another.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes just weeks after Silicon Knights&rsquo; latest project, X-Men Destiny, <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/reviews\/15074--Men-Destiny-Review-Xbox-360.html\" target=\"_self\" title=\"MyGaming Review\">launched and promptly bombed<\/a> on Metacritic, although the company has been treading murky water since Too Human did pretty much exactly the same thing in 2008.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/xmen_destiny_screen_007_417302194.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"340\" height=\"190\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Back in July, however, a $3 million investment from the Ontario government was supposedly going to fund an additional 80 new staffers on top of the then 97 in-house employees.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently something hasn&rsquo;t worked out.<\/p>\n<p>For the moment, Silicon Knights has not made any official statement on the matter, but it&rsquo;s probably safe to assume there&rsquo;s not going to be a Too Human 2.<\/p>\n<p>I can already hear the great wailing and gnashing of teeth.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19800-Silicon-Knights-looks-like-it-s-cutting-staff\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Forum Link\"><strong>Silicon Knights looks like it&#8217;s cutting staff<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>75 percent of staff sacked<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}