Splash Damage acquired this studio just 3 months after laying off a bunch of people—now it's laying them off, too

The closure of BioWare and layoff of roughly 400 people at Electronic Arts is being rightly excoriated as an example of the corrosive effects of capital on pretty much everything good. But that same sort of thing happens, maybe more often than we'd like to think, on smaller scales, too. Case in point: Gamepires, creator of open-world survival game Scum , which announced last week that it's putting people out of work.