{"id":6677,"date":"2010-07-09T11:49:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T09:49:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"civ-developer-sheds-20-employees-says-civ-unaffected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/6677-civ-developer-sheds-20-employees-says-civ-unaffected","title":{"rendered":"Civ Developer sheds 20 employees, says Civ unaffected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>According to<a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.variety.com\/technotainment\/2010\/07\/civilization-studio-lays-off-20.html \" target=\"_blank\"> Variety <\/a>Firaxis has let go of 20 employees. The individuals let go were involved in past Civilization titles, as well as the forthcoming Civlization V.<\/p>\n<p>Fireaxis owner Take-Two says that the cuts are a &#8220;realignment of development resources at the studio,&rdquo; and that &nbsp;&#8220;these reductions will not impact Firaxis&#8217; ability to create and deliver AAA titles, including its forthcoming Sid Meier&#8217;s Civilization V and Sid Meier&#8217;s Civilization Network for Facebook.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to Variety, the 20 departing employees comprise approximately 15% of the studio&rsquo;s workforce.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Civilisation V is still on track for its September 24 release.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Developer makes cut backs, \u201crealigns resources\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"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-6677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6677","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\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}