{"id":58146,"date":"2013-09-06T11:15:50","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T09:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=58146"},"modified":"2013-09-06T11:17:09","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T09:17:09","slug":"bioshock-infinite-studio-sees-layoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/58146-bioshock-infinite-studio-sees-layoffs","title":{"rendered":"Bioshock Infinite studio sees layoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bioshock Infinite developer Irrational Games has laid off eight employees from its Massachusetts-based development house.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In an effort to streamline our processes I am sad to confirm that we let go a total of eight employees today,&#8221; a representative for Irrational Games said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Any studio&#8217;s greatest asset is the group of people that make up the whole, and as such it was extremely hard to make this decision and there is never a good time for this to happen. As co-workers and friends, we wish them the very best.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It was also added that the cutting of staff would not affect the <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/56855-bioshock-infinite-storyline-and-gameplay-dlc-revealed.html\" target=\"_blank\">two-part Burial at Sea downloadable content<\/a> \u201cin any way\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>After the incredible success of Bioshock Infinite, it\u2019s sad for such a creative and exciting team to be reshaped, and hopefully they&#8217;ll be snapped up by someone else soon.<\/p>\n<h6>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/layoffs-at-bioshock-developer-irrational-games-1257449358\">Kotaku<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Bioshock:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/56885-underwater-strip-club-looks-like-rapture.html\">Underwater strip club looks like Rapture<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/56855-bioshock-infinite-storyline-and-gameplay-dlc-revealed.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bioshock Infinite storyline and gameplay DLC revealed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/49242-bioshocks-rapture-recreated-in-minecraft.html\">BioShock\u2019s Rapture recreated in Minecraft<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/48278-bioshock-for-vita-stuck-in-paper-design-stage.html\">Bioshock for Vita stuck in \u201cpaper design\u201d stage<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/48046-bioshock-infinite-cosplayer-gets-bioshock-infinite-promo-job.html\">BioShock Infinite cosplayer lands official promo job<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irrational Games\u2019 staff cut in &#8220;streamlining&#8221; exercise<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":56238,"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_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,277,283,10872,10870,2013],"class_list":["post-58146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-bioshock","tag-bioshock-infinite","tag-burial-at-sea","tag-irrational","tag-irrational-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58146","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\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58151,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58146\/revisions\/58151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}