Phoenix Labs is reducing its project load months after its founders bought the studio to regain ownership from parent company Garena.
Phoenix Labs, developers of the online gameDauntless,has reportedly laid off 9 percent of its staff. According to GamesIndustrythe Vancouver-based studio conducted layoffs of around 30 staffers (out of around 310, per LinkedIn) across its additional offices in Canada and the United States.
Those layoffs were said to have been announced internally to staff internally last week. A representative told GamesIndustry the layoffs are a part of a larger reorganization effort and a “focus on fewer development projects.”
Phoenix Labs was founded in 2014 by Jesse Houston, Sean Bender and Robin Mayne, all of whom had previously worked at Riot Games on League of Legends. The studio was acquired by Garena in 2020, during which it opened a pair of studios in Montreal and Los Angeles to support Dauntless and make prototypes for new games.
As of this past FebruaryPhoenix Labs has since broken off from Garena after studio management bought the company.
As a result of that reorganization, Phoenix Labs is said to focus mainly on Dauntless,its first and currently only released game. Along with its upcoming gameFae Farmfor the Nintendo Switch later this year, the studio will also devote time to “the remaining unannounced titles in our portfolio.”
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