Undead Labs boss "reluctant to share" number affected by layoffs: "I would hate to reduce the impact to those individuals to a number or statistic"

Undead Labs studio boss Philip Holt is "reluctant to share" how many employees the developer lost when it became independent of Xbox. "It was a total heartbreak to have to part ways," he recently told The Game Business . "I would hate to reduce the impact to those individuals to a number or statistic." Holt acknowledged he was "irresponsibly transparent" with staff during Undead Labs' transition to an "employee-owned studio." "Rather than keeping them in the dark and manufacture some alternate reality, I just brought them alongside. That probably reduced some anxiety," he explained.