OtherSide Entertainment has laid off 18 more employees from its Thick as Thieves development team, bringing the total headcount reduction to 36 in roughly one month. The Boston-based studio recently scaled back Thick as Thieves from a larger competitive multiplayer immersive sim to a smaller $5 single-player/co-op title. A company spokesperson cited the increasingly challenging commercial viability of immersive sim games with lengthy development cycles as the reason behind the restructuring.
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