Soul Assembly, the studio behind Drop Dead: The Cabin and Just Dance VR, is undergoing redundancies.
While the studio is yet to make an official announcement, multiple staff members confirmed via LinkedIn that the UK-based studio is facing redundancies. Though we’ve yet to establish the full extent of the layoffs, this has affected different departments like QA, marketing, production, animation, and various artists.
It’s currently unclear exactly how many employees have been impacted and while Soul Assembly’s team size is unknown, the studio lists 74 people on LinkedIn. We’ve reached out to Soul Assembly for an official statement, and we’ll update this article if we learn more.
Soul Assembly could be considered one of VR gaming’s more seasoned veterans, and 2022 saw it spin out of developer Pixel Toys to become its own studio. While Just Dance VR and Last Stand are its most recent titles, previous games include Warhammer 40k: Battle Sister and Drop Dead: Dual Strike. The studio’s also made inroads into mixed reality with Drop Dead: The Cabin’s Home Invasion mode for Quest and Soul Spire for Apple Vision Pro.
It’s the latest studio to announce layoffs following a rough two years for the video game industry. Last October saw Hitman 3 VR: Reloaded studio XR Games announce a large-scale restructuring that reportedly affected 72 staff members. Before that, nDreams confirmed layoffs affecting 17.5% of staff right before launching two then-upcoming games; Vendetta Forever and Frenzies.
